Martino Gamper

Italian-born designer Martino Gamper began his career as an apprentice for a furniture maker in his native south tyrol before studying sculpture under Michelangelo Pistoletto at the Academy of fine arts in Vienna. Today, the london-based gamper designs for leading furniture brands, creates one-off commissions and is active in exhibition design, including his 2009 “stanze e camere” show at the Triennale in Milan.