Francesco Faccin was born in Milan in 1977. In 2003, after his graduation at “Istituto Europeo di Design”, starts working in the design studio of Enzo Mari. In the meanwhile he collaborates as an independent designer with Italian and foreign firms. From 2004 onward he develops small series self-producible projects in collaboration with highly skilled artisans. In the same period works with Francesco Rivolta, modeler and lute maker, improving his knowledge in working with wood. In 2007 takes part in “Salone Satellite” for his first time. In 2009 he joins up with Michele De Lucchi, working at his side for five years. In 2010 he participates to Salone Satellite together with Alvaro Catalan de Ocòn and they are both rewarded with the Design Report Award. In the same year Faccin starts to teach Industrial Design at NABA in Milan with the “Projects not Objects” class and he goes ahead with his teaching activity in different universities through Italy and Europe. In 2012 the NGO Liveinslums asks him to design the furniture of the Why Not Academy school in the Nairobi slum, besides designing the interiors of the “28 posti” restaurant in Milan, commissioned by the same NGO. The next year Faccin is invited as affiliated fellow to spend 4 months inside the prestigious American Academy in Rome, where he carries out a research in order to map the craft producing sector of the capital city centre. In the same year he exhibits at the Triennale in Milan a collection of objects selected in Nairobi slums, the exhibition is called “Made in Slums”, curated by Fulvio Irace. During Expo 2015, he is commissioned by Marva Griffin to deal with a project about the subject “feeding the Planet”; for which reason “Honey Factory” appears, a small architecture for the urban beekeeping, still operating in the garden of the Triennale in Milan. Now he is currently working on a regular basis with several Italian and foreign firms, while his work has been published several times by the most important national and international magazines.