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After graduating from the Cherson Teachers’ Training College in Ukraine, Iryna attended the Faculty of Spatial Design at the British High School of Art and Design. Since 2005 she has worked as an interior designer and decorator. The Italian manufacturers Milano Bedding have produced one of her designs, the Booklet ottoman, for more than ten years. Iryna has been the editor of Salon Magazine Azerbaijan and assistant editor of the Ukrainian magazine Domus Design.

Nicholas Belfield has been in the lighting industry for 27 years, and joined dpa lighting consultants in 2006. Working extensively on prestigious projects worldwide and nationally, Belfield has been an integral part of the practice’s growth and development over the past two decades, recently taking on the role of partner in the London studio. dpa has completed over 7,500 projects in 80 countries over 67 years – an achievement which has been rewarded with many national, European and international awards.

Teresa Bellemo deals with communication and works for Rivista Studio. She has directed Cosebelle magazine and writes for several online and print magazines, such as Icon Design and Living Corriere. She lives in Milan.

Porzia Bergamasco is a journalist, critic, curator and teacher, specialising in design and architecture, communication and contemporary aesthetic phenomena. With a degree in Modern Literature, her career began in the mid-80s in Bari, her native city, where she was involved with information, cultural and regional policy, architecture, design and contemporary art, contributing to magazines and working as a press officer for international events and festivals. She lived in Rome from 1991 to 1999, where she also worked in television, before moving to Milan, where she is the curator of

Design critic, freelance journalist and creative strategy consultant, Anne-France Berthelon is an adept of crossovers, versatility, travels, ideas, encounters and conversations. She has created knitting patterns for fashion magazines while studying Languages and found herself working as a freelance copywriter in the last golden years of advertising before becoming a trends & strategy analyst for fashion offices. Her passion for design and its global ecosystem has made her a regular contributor to design publications such as Ideat, Libération, The Good Life and DAMN.

Tulga Beyerle (b. 1964, Vienna) has been director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) since 1 December 2018. In keeping with the goal of museums of applied and decorative arts everywhere to provide inspiration for the best in design both in the present and future, Beyerle strives to position MKG as a place of myriad possibilities and a platform for discourse and negotiation at the highest level and yet without excluding any members of society. 

Federica Biasi, born in Milan in 1989, opened her studio in 2015 after spending two years in the Netherlands, where she deepened her understanding of Nordic design and developed her own distinctive style. Passionate about craftsmanship, photography, and travel, she combines tradition and manufacturing techniques from different cultures with industrial design, always seeking a refined aesthetic and a balance between forms and processes. The tactile aspect and research are always central to her creative journey.

Antonio Biella, General Manager of Acqua S.Bernardo since 2015, helms the brand in Italy and in the new European and global markets.

An innovative flexible development strategy has seen the long-established mineral water company reprise its starring role on Italian and cosmopolitan tables. 

Wu Bin is the founder of W.DESIGN China and the forward-thinking visionary known for his unique interior design style, "Modern Orientalism." With more than two decades of success in interior design across Asia and beyond, Wu seamlessly blends traditional Eastern aesthetics with Western modernist design techniques, leading the way in transformative design and cultural fusion. His respect for heritage and global perspective breaks boundaries and transcends space and experience, inspiring and captivating audiences worldwide.

Binet is an internationally renowned Swiss-French photographer based in London. She studied photography at the European Design Institute in Rome, where she spent most of her formative years. Over more than 35 years, Binet has immortalized both contemporary and historical architecture. A fervent supporter of analogue photography, she works exclusively with film.

Jean Blanchaert (Milan, 1954) is a contemporary art gallerist, curator and art critic. The Galleria Blanchaert, in Milan, set up in 1957 by his mother Silvia, has held hundreds of exhibitions in Italy and abroad featuring the work of some of the leading artists/craftsmen in the world. Blanchaert has curated dozens of exhibitions in institutional places, on glass, ceramics, iron, wood and marble, as well as art and photography.

He has been a permanent contributor to the monthly magazine Art e Dossier (Giunti Editore) since 2008. 

Graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan, she has her own professional studio in Biella. 

She works for both public and private clients, carrying out building and urban recovery projects, installations, furnishings and strategic planning for associations and institutions. 

She was president of the Order of Architects of Biella, President of ADI, President of WDO World Design Organization. She’s currently a Senator of WDO. 

Stefano Boeri, architect and urban planner, is Full Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano and Director of the Future City Lab at Tongji University in Shanghai. Since 2018 he has been President of Triennale Milano and since 2020 he has chaired the Scientific Committee of Forestami, the urban forestry project in the Milan metropolitan area.
Architect of the Bosco Verticale (Boeri Studio, Milan, 2014), Stefano Boeri is one of the main players in the debate on climate change in the field of international architecture.

The Director of Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art since 2017, Ilaria Bonacossa is an art critic and curator. With a degree in Contemporary Art History from the State University of Milan, after taking a master in curatorial studies at Bard College (USA) she worked in New York at the Whitney Museum. For nine years curator of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, in 2007 she was a member of the Jury for the Leone d’Oro of the 52nd Venice Art Biennale.

Jean-Philippe Bonnefoi is Aesop’s Head of Retail Design for Europe, and Global Head of Innovation. He trained as an architect at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Malaquais before joining Aesop nearly 14 years ago. During his tenure with the company, he has worked across Retail, Visual Merchandising and Store Design.