T-Cotta

The passion for objects meant as industrial products is the glue of the professional partnership between Alfredo Chiaramonte and Marco Marin, promoting partners of the homonymous Designstudio.
The different activities experienced through the years (interiors, graphics, industrial and lighting design) brought to a mixed knowledge, contaminated by ideas developed in many fields.
Alfredo Chiaramonte was born in Bologna and studied at the Faculty of Architecture of Venice. Marco Marin was born in Venice and graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts specializing in industrial design.
They worked together with well known forniture and litghting companies.
They teached at the European Center for preservation of the architectural heritage in Venice.
Through the years they received many recognitions and some of their works have been exposed in the permanent collections of International Museums, like Museo Correr in Venice, Beaubourg in Paris, Design Museum of Calenzano Anna Querci Fondation) Moma in San Francisco and the Venice Biennale when they worked with Yoko Ono.