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De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi

De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi formed their practice in 1966. Their professional activities included architecture, industrial design, development of furniture and fittings, and urban planning. They worked with Jonathan De Pas from 1966 until he passed away in 1991.

In the 60’s and 70’s they developed a specific interest in creating furniture and temporary architecture with industrially advanced materials and technology. They designed and built a series of pneumatic structures for the Italian Pavillion at the World Exposition in Osaka, for the XIV Triennale of Milan and for Eurodomus. In 1967 they designed an inflatable armchair called “Blow”.

Since 1970 they have participated in many exhibitions, including the Triennale, The Eurodomus, “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” at MoMA in New York in 1972, the BIO in Ljubljana and many Compasso d’Oro and ADI travelling exhibitions.

In 1987, the exhibition “De Pas, D’Urbino, Lomazzi” was inaugurated at the temple Daikaku-Ji, Kyoto, and in 1992, a solo exhibition “Un coro a tre voci”, was organized at IZM Gallery Tokyo.

They have received much recognition and many award, including the Compasso d’Oro of 1979, awards at the BIO 7 (1977) and BIO 9 (1981) in Ljubljana, the Design Award Winner of 1998 in Hannover, the Wallpaper Design Awards “Best Domestic Design” in 2009.

Their works are in the design collections of several museums, including: The Museum of Modern Art and The Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York, The Denver Art Museum in Colorado, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Design Museum of London, the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Zurich and Berlin, the Staatliches Museum fur angewandte Kunst in Munich, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Jerusalem Museum in Israel, the Triennale in Milan, and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil-am-Rhein.

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