Carlo Bimbi
Firenze, Italy

Carlo Bimbi has been working in the field of design for forty years, with a skilful balance of logic and creativity. His intelligent enthusiasm led him to cooperate, at the end of the sixties, with Nizzoli Associati, Gianni Ferrara and Nilo Gioacchini, and then to start the Internotredici studio, with which he was one of the protagonists of Italy: The New Domestic Landscape at the MoMA in New York. Carlo Bimbi has designed, and is designing, for Arketipo, Guzzini, Ciatti, B&B Italia, Zucchetti Rubinetterie. For Segis he designed the Enrico chair, winner of the Roscoe-Awards, and the Blitz chair, which in '98 won both the Red Dot and the iF Award. He was Design Lecturer at the Institute of Art and the I.S.I.A. in Florence and is currently teaching at the Industrial Design Degree Course at the Faculty of Architecture of that city.