Matteo Nunziati, the Milanese with a RIBA award on the shelf

Matteo Nunziati, designer of the Blade office system and Elle bookcase for i4Mariani

British recognition came twice: a Royal Institute of British Architects Award in 2018 and a London Design Award in 2022. Matteo Nunziati runs his Milan studio across architecture, interiors and product design, working from Europe to the Middle East, Asia and the United States — penthouses at 432 Park Avenue and the Bosco Verticale, towers and lounges in Doha, clients from Aston Martin and Qatar Airways to Molteni&C and Poliform.

His office thinking is distilled at i4Mariani: Blade, a complete office system of simple geometric lines, with the Elle bookcase and Kate sofas alongside. All of it reaches executive floors in the La Mercanti programme — RIBA-approved rigour, desk-side.