LUCA CENDALI

Luca Cendali was born in Milan, he graduated at the Politecnico in 1983 under Franca Helg’s leadership.

In 1987, he founded the KR group with Marek Nester Piotrowski and Anna Olewska, thus organising various shows and exhibitions such as the European Community hall during B.I.T. and ItalExpo in Madrid (1990) and Tibet cuore dell’Asia at the Palazzo della Ragione in Milan (1991). In 1991 he moved to Udine, dedicating himself both to design and to architectonic renovation

Among his works, the Shopping Centre Città Fiera (1991/2002) for which he was given the Metra Sistemi d’Autore award, the restoration of Castello di Moruzzo (1994), palazzo Ciani in Piazza del Mercato in Udine (1996), Distillerie Nonino in Ronchi di Percoto (2003), Italy. Since 1991, he has designed the decanters of the Nonino ÙE Cru Monovitigno Picolit collection for Distillerie Nonino, achieved through years in cooperation with Venini, Baccarat and Riedel.

In 1990 he was a visiting professor at the University of Segezed in Hungary. Since 1991 he has been teaching Exhibit design at the Istituto Europeo di Design, where he also holds some conferences on Symbols in Sacred Art. In April 2007 he was responsible for the show-event Il tempio del design, nuovi luoghi di culto per una società multietnica.

Since 1998 ha has been secretary of the Nonino Award, whose jury is presided by Ermanno Olmi and is composed, among others, by Claudio Magris, Peter Brook, V.S.Naipaul, Adonis, Antonio R. Damasco and Edgar Morin. On next June, he is taking part with the literature Nobel price V.S.Naipaul to the eight edition of la Milanesiana.