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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.

Renato Bosco, born in Verona in 1967, entered the hospitality world at a very young age: by 14 he was already waitering and at 18 he started working in the pizza world, discovering a great interest in yeasts, flours and doughs. This then became a very real, powerful passion, one that has never left him, leading to bread and pizza, the huge discovery of sourdough in 1996, and an ongoing desire to learn, master and experiment, including pastry making.

From Puglia to Rome, by way of the United States – Cristina Bowerman’s trajectory has been an unusual one - born in Puglia, she took a degree in law followed by lengthy experience, first in San Francisco and then in Texas. It was here that she took her first steps in the cookery world, after a second degree in Culinary Arts at the Culinary Academy in Austin. She decided to return to Italy to study gastronomy in 2004 for what was meant to be a short time, but Rome then became her second home.

Head of the Press and Communication Office at the Salone del Mobile.Milano. Fifty years’ old and a professional journalist, he has had extensive publishing experience in the field of economics, innovation and design with leading national newspapers and furnishing sector periodicals.  

His in-depth knowledge of the sector saw him join FederlegnoArredo in 2011 as Head of the Wood Sector Press Office. 

Sujata Burman is a writer and editor based in London, specialising in design and culture. She was Digital Design Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine before moving to her current role of Digital Editor at London Design Festival and London Design Biennale where she is expanding the content offering of the showcases. In 2019, she co-authored her first book, An Opinionated Guide to London Architecture, published by Hoxton Mini Press, which was driven by her aim to make the fields of design and architecture accessible to wider audiences.

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Felix Burrichter is a New York-based creative director, curator, editor, and publisher. Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, he was trained as an architect in Paris and New York. In 2006 Felix founded the multimedia platform PIN–UP, a self-described “Magazine for Architectural Entertainment” with a biannual print edition, of which he is the editorial and creative director. In addition to PIN–UP, Burrichter curates exhibitions and consults on design and architecture projects for various design brands.

Katrina works across The Times and The Sunday Times as interiors editor, and has written a design column for the paper for over a decade. Her first editing job was at a magazine about stolen art, and she subsequently wrote about collecting for the Evening Standard and the Financial Tmes's How to Spend It magazine. Her focus is now on all types of design for the home, from the luxury market to high street collections.

Sergio Buttiglieri has been since 2006 Style Director of Sanlorenzo, the first shipyard in the world as mono-brand for yachts and super-yachts beyond 24 metres. Of classical background, he was educated in Parma, where he studied with the eminent art historian Arturo Quintavalle. 

In the wake of an enduring passion, he is also a long- time author of theatrical and artistic reviews for several journals. 

A well-known face on MTV, a special envoy for the show Le Lene, as well as a judge on X Factor, she hosted the 2006 Sanremo Festival alongside Giorgio Panariello and Ilary Blasi, the talk show Victor Victoria on La7, and the football show Quelli che il Calcio on Rai2. With her explosive irony, Victoria Cabello has been a familiar face over many television seasons, and she also counts radio and film appearances amongst her achievements.

Giovanna Calvenzi was a picture editor for a number of Italian periodicals from 1985 to 2019. She was artistic director of the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie di Arles in 1998, guest curator of Photo España in Madrid in 2002, and artistic delegate, with Laura Serani, to Paris Photo Month in 2014. She has taught history of photography and photo editing in Milan and Bologna and is heavily involved in research into contemporary photography. She has looked after the Gabriele Basilico Archive since 2013. Her publications include Italia.

(1966) Having graduated from Milan’s Polytechnic with a thesis on the relationship between philosophy and architecture, Calzavara is an architect and freelance journalist, and also works in planning, teaching, critiquing and curating. He studied under Corrado Levi and attended the art and philosophy workshop “Thinking of Art” with Jacques Derrida, Carlo Sini and Studio Azzurro. His works are showcased at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, the Triennale di Milano, the Villa Croce Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, and the Urban Center in Milan. 

Humberto Campana (1953) and his brother Fernando (1961) co-founded Studio Campana in 1984. The Studio has achieved national and international recognition for its furniture design and intriguing pieces.

Elisa Carassai is a writer, copywriter and editorial strategist born and grew up in Milan, specialised in fashion, design and culture, who currently collaborates with brands, creative agencies and publications. She moved to London in September 2014 for a year of training at the Condè Nast College of Fashion and Design and to study fashion journalism at the London College of Fashion.

Architect’s education, journalist’s profession, she has intertwined research with design and actuality since her graduation at the Polytechnic of Milan. Writing is a practice developed and trained in the making: at the Triennale, for the exhibitions 'The glasses taken seriously' and 'The dress taken off the body'; at the university, with the publication of the book ‘Leggere le Tendenze' (F. Lupetti Editore, 2007), deep the editorial staff of Elle Decor Italia and today for important Italian magazine such as Mondadori, Rcs and Editoriale Domus groups.