Biography

Fabrizio Ballardini is an Italian architect and designer who graduated in 1977. From 1980 onwards, he dedicated himself to industrial design and collaborated with numerous international publishers and manufacturers, including Arflex, Roche Bobois, Bernini, Sirrah, Bontempi, and Progetti. In the 1990s, his work was characterized by transformable objects and an approach he describes as "chameleon-like," based on versatility. Lucio Costanzi collaborated with him on several furniture projects, including the San Siro armchair.

Literature

Giuliana Gramigna, Italian design repertoire 1950–2000, Allemandi, 2003, p. 511; Charlotte & Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs, Taschen, Cologne, 2000, p. 666; Arflex documentation dedicated to Fabrizio Ballardini.

Institutional reference

Arflex documents Fabrizio Ballardini among its designers and recalls his career as an architect and then as an industrial designer, as well as his collaborations with many Italian publishers. Arflex — Fabrizio Ballardini.

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The San Siro armchair, designed for Bernini in 1995, is currently the Ballardini & Costanzi piece documented in the DIZAGN archives. DIZAGN Expertise.