Able to give life to an elegant, light and sweet design, Cristina Celestino is one of the most popular and interesting women designers of her generation and of the entire international scene. Very Italian, born in Pordenone in 1980, she studied Architecture at the Iuav in Venice, where she graduated in 2005. After several experiences since 2010 she has settled in Milan where she deals with design at 360 °, collaborates, in fact, with various companies and created Attico Design. Her personal brand within which she lives a totally free planning. Her works tell of a refined, feminine but never affected sensitivity, in which the studied balance of volumes and color combine with the material, giving life to delicate and harmonious solutions. Collaborations
Many brands, on the national and international scene, with which Cristina Celestino collaborates and has confronted herself over the years, companies with which she has developed the most varied projects. Among these, just to name a few: Saba Italia, Seletti, Fendi Casa, CC_Tapis, Fornace Brioni, Florim, London Art, Misha Milano, Pianca, Gebruder Thonet Vienna, Illulian and Billiani where, since 2019, he has held the role of artistic director. A truly heterogeneous design in which, from the seats to the upholstered furniture, passing through the surfaces, wallpapers, carpets and accessories, an unequivocal style is always evident, the result of a clearly distinguishable, clear and consolidated aesthetic archive. An archive of shapes and colors which is the design basis of her works and which, as she herself affirms: “is enriched daily with continuous observations,
A stylistic abacus that the designer skillfully filters and transforms into new creativity. Not only furniture and design, among his works there are also many interior projects. Compositional solutions characterized by a “domestic” allure in which it is the balanced mix of textures, colors and different finishes that give life to the final result. Both in the design and in the interior design everything, as she herself states, is born “from a close dialogue between designer and client “and is the result of mutual understanding. Poetics and aesthetics
In his works there are few geometric figures, but rather the search for organic forms that can be traced back to “close”, familiar and emotional themes. Themes that the designer often takes from nature for her a great source of inspiration. Her leaves, butterfly wings, flower corollas and petals (often) are the starting elements from which patterns and volumes, shapes and combinations come to life. A narrative language of her rich in references and enriched, more often than not, by a palette of light and saturated colors that go from the most refined pinks to sandy yellows and delicate blues that in the imagination refer to windy skies . The prices
There have been numerous international awards and honors that Cristina Celestino has received over the years for her work. In 2016 she was one of the 8 winners of the Special Jury Prize in the “Salone del Mobile Milano Awards” for her being a “connecting figure between young and mature designers and for her sagacity in combining themes such as fragility, decorum and delicacy, expressing them in an intelligent design that knows how to best relate to high craftsmanship and industry “, in 2016 the Milan Triennale chose her as one of the protagonists of the W Women in Italian Design exhibition, which ended in 2017 and received the Elle Decor International Design Award in the Wallcovering category in 2017 and 2019.
Able to give life to delicate and refined objects, Cristina Celestino with her work tells an unprecedented feminine design, in her works she investigates the past with new eyes and translates it into objects and spaces characterized by the elegance of the composition. Her ability to play and give expressive power to sometimes unusual materials (such as marble or terracotta), as well as her deepening of the most important craftsmanship and decoration techniques makes her a revolutionary investigator of contemporary and current design. Her is a design language in continuous evolution, rich and exciting, open to the future, but extremely consistent with the path taken, a path that places the designer among the most interesting designers on the international scene.
