cristiana vannini

After graduating in architecture at Florence University, Cristiana Vannini moved to Milan in 1991 to become chief executive of the Lighting Design Centre of Targetti Group. From 1992 to 1996 she collaborated with Alessandro Mendini undertaking exhibition design projects and supervising publishing activities. In 1996 she established her own studio cristianavannini | arc.
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cristianavannini | arc is an interior design practice providing client-focused high quality architectural services in various interior design fields, from hospitality to private houses, from workplaces to exhibit, events and retail. Among clients, information technology, mass market and real estate companies as well as cultural private and public institutions.
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As a product designer works for lighting and furniture design companies, as well as taking part in exhibitions in Italy and abroad.
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Cristiana Vannini is visiting critic at Politecnico di Milano, Scuola Politecnica di Design, Domus Academy and Lorenzo de’ Medici in Florence.

Partnership:
1998/2013 _ Founder and partner vc a, team of qualified architects and designers with a strong concern for innovation and research
2007/2010 _ Founder and partner Scialuppa, design management firm
2017 / currently _ Founder and creative director of Fassamano, fashion reading glasses brand

Member of IDEA (Italian Association of Exhibition Designers)
Member of AREL (Association Real Estate Ladies)

people

Collaborators (92/2026)
Maira Chighine / Ettore Galimberti
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Laura Danieli / Giuseppe Lazzaro / Alessandro Ruga / Vito Ruscio / Raffaele Sabbadini / Alessandra Spaltini /
Ornella Suriano / Alain Torri / Alessio Torricelli
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Mara Ambrosino / Burcu Aksoy (TR) / Pelin Arslan (TR) / Elena Ascari / Fred Avitaia / Alice Biancardi / Daniela Biccari / Marcello Biffi / Merve Bindebin (TR) / Olivia Bishop (UK) / Roberta Bonaiti / Idil Bozkurt (TR) / Valentina Camangi / Giovanni Capri / Pol Casamitjana (S) / Cristian Catania / Fabrizia Cavalieri / Laura Chin / Giulia Collalti / Ilaria Corvino / Giulia Cuomo / Ramona De Iuliis / Maria Chiara Di Berardo / Guendalina Di Lorenzo / Rowan Dinning (AUS) / Sara Ewreskar (SE) / Giulia Fabiani / Federica Ferrari / Silvia Ferrario / Mariolina Fossati / Stefano Garro / Claudia Gaspar (PT)/ Claudia Gresta / Jennifer Lemieux (CDN) / Alessandra Levo / Kostantia Manthou (GR) / Vincenzo Marchetti / Enrico Muccio / Rui Pereira (P) / Valentino Reutner (CH) / Steven Risiott (M) / Robin Rizzini / Grazia Romano / Jordi Santacreu (E) / Nicola Seta / Gayatri Shinde (IN) / Marco Tecci / Manuel Villiotti / Annette Wolf (D) / Cornelia Zollner (D)

Co-Architectural Designers
Paolo Cesaretti (vc a)
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Guido Antonello
Atelier Verticale Architetti
Christoph Augustine (D)
Andrea Balzari
Martino Berghinz
Carla Ceccariglia
Maurizio Costa
Filippo Fineschi
Luigi Fumagalli
Giorgio Gregori
Fabio Pansera
QART progetti

Graphic Designers
Claudia Astarita
Massimo Canali
Giuseppe Del Greco
Daniele Ledda
Clara Pozzetti

Color Consultant
Massimo Caiazzo

Communication Agencies
Action Agency
Bianchi Associati
Forward
Interbrand
J.W.Thomson
Quindicizerotre
Realta Group
TW2
Vailati & Savarro

Lighting Designers
Markovic Rada (RS)

Photographers
Gabriele Basilico
Carlo Bevilacqua
Santi Caleca
Marco Casale
Matteo Cirenei
Mario Ermoli
Saverio Lombardi Vallauri
Adriano Pecchio
Vaclav Sedy

Videomakers
SoundCage
XTV Productions
Ludovica Mangini