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Long production experience,

the creativity of architects and designers

Handles that are the result of care, attention and passion. Dnd puts its manufacturing expertise at the service of the most brilliant creativity, collaborating with outstanding designers to develop collections that shine a light on the world of design, enrich its range of products and fully satisfy the needs of contemporary interior design.

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crisalide AVP+PSD designed by Elena Salmistraro

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dune PVD-SG+PSV designed by Elena Salmistraro

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anik PCS designed by Gabriele & Oscar Buratti

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anik brilliant PVD-BG designed by Gabriele & Oscar Buratti

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anik line ONV designed by Gabriele & Oscar Buratti

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leva ONO designed by Park Associati

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leva mirror PVD-SBM designed by Park Associati

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pluris ZNE designed by Giulio Iacchetti

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pod OLV designed by Holscher Design

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DUE ONO designed by Stefano Boeri Architetti

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timeless ASV designed by Marco Pisati

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ginkgo PGS designed by Giulio Iacchetti

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A forge for design

Dnd, managed by Vilma Martinelli together with her son Pietro and daughter Simona, is as a forge of ideas able to combine the long manufacturing experience gathered over time with the creativity of experienced and respected architects and designers who are duly involved in the design of the products.

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“Handling architecture”: the project

To involve architects who had never – or seldom – focused on product design, inviting them to create a handle. This was the challenge formulated by Dnd in 2018 – based on an idea of Giulio Iacchetti, the company art director – and suggested to five architecture firms with an Italian background very active on an international level: Stefano Boeri Architetti, Alfonso FemiaMaurizio Varratta, Cino Zucchi and 967arch.

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Open Doors

Dnd’s direct consultancy service.

Are you an architect and would you like to receive a direct, one-to-one advice on your projects?
Do you want to learn about finishes, materials and customisation options?

Thanks to Open Doors you can speak directly with your personal consultant and develop your project at best. Book a 30-minute appointment with a Dnd consultant by selecting a day and time taken from the available slots.

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Elena Salmistraro

Elena Salmistraro

Product designer and artist, she lives and works in Milan. She graduated in industrial design at the Politecnico di Milano and in 2009 founded her studio that works in architecture and design, collaborating as a product designer and illustrator with many companies in the creative industry.

She is interested in developing work that combines illustration, design and visual arts, through which she intends to define a personal code of communication. Among the priorities of her creations, emerge attention to detail and the harmonious search for forms pursued in anthropomorphism and primitivism. An excess of graphic symbols gives the object a stereoscopic image, transporting it into a territory suspended between fantasy and reality. Her designs have been selected for several international exhibitions.

In 2017, he won the "Salone del Mobile Milano Award" as "Best young designer". Since 2107, the Ministero degli affari esteri, appointed her as Ambassador of Italian design in the world.

In 2018 she was appointed Ambassador of Brera Design District. Also in 2018, she won the "Icon Award" at Marmomac (Verona).

In 2020, with the Chimera project designed for Cedit-Ceramiche d'Italia, she wins the important international "Good Design Awards".

In 2021 the Spire washbasin designed for Ceramica Flaminia wins the prestigious "ADI Ceramic & Bathroom Award".

Gabriele & Oscar Buratti

Gabriele & Oscar Buratti

Gabriele Buratti, architect and professor of Interior Design at the Faculty of Design of Politecnico di Milano (2003-2010), e Oscar Buratti, architect, form the architecture and design studio BURATTI ARCHITETTI.

The studio is transversally involved in projects of different scales, from the architecture of buildings and urban areas to interiors of houses and commercial spaces, from the design of furniture and lighting to the exhibition and showroom design, in an intense and varied professional path, in which themes, places and typologies, brands and people, materials and workmanship, mingle together contaminating one another.

Park Associati

Park Associati

Park Associati, founded in 2000 by Filippo Paliani and Michele Rossi, focuses its activity on architectural design, urban planning, interior and product design.

Park Associati’s approach to architecture is analytical, pragmatic and tailored, strong in tradition but capable of generating new linguistic codes through a process that combines listening, intuition and experimentation. While listening to the concrete elements dictated by regulations and budget constraints and environmental conditions, attention is also paid to the intangible dimensions: the clients’ identity values, the urban, social, and political context. Intuition brings quality and value to projects and, accompanied by the analytical process, enables the contexts’ complexity to be deciphered through the implementation of original solutions.

Typological, formal and language experimentation, the cooperation with other disciplines, in short research, are at the heart of the studio‘s thinking, which takes shape in the Park Plus applied research unit.

Giulio Iacchetti

The artistic direction

Since 2017, Dnd appointed Giulio Iacchetti as its art director: a very talented industrial designer, involved in the development of the catalogue, the strategy, the selection of designers and consultants to be involved.

An important assignment, thanks to which Dnd intends to carry on, spending the utmost care and attention, with the growth path that makes it increasingly present in the world of home design.

Marco Pisati

Marco Pisati

A designer from Florence, trained as an architect, fascinated by new materials and technologies.

He experiments with ideas in a wide range of sectors, designing for different companies: ASI, IACSA (International Advanced Center for Space Applications), Grado Zero Espace, ACI, Emilio Pucci, 3M Rubinetterie, Glass Design & Dornbracht, Gattoni Rubinetterie, K8 Radiatori, Hego Waterdesign & Paini, Glass Design, Ceramica & Complementi, Bandini Rubinetterie, Il Bagno Bandini.

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Made in Italy

Manufacturing quality handles that are completely Made in Italy, since ever

A long-standing strategic choice that is based on the values of Italian corporate culture.

Dnd is Made in Italy with the pride of making products thanks to the knowledge, researchstyle and care that small objects – such as handles – require. The excellence and value of Italian design has always been based on developing, working, finishing and testing in Italy: important steps to ensure quality products.

From creativity to materials, the drawing to the project, the production to the finishing, handles that are always made in Italy and made of Italy, to enter the most beautiful, appealing homes, to enhance outstanding works of architecture, to offer an optimal response to needs of customization in the contract sector, in Italy and the world.

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Special processes

Special processes

Dnd’s extensive experience in metalworking allows it to carry out all types of processes, including manual ones, in order meet customisation requirements at best: from bronzing to different levels of shading, from brushing to plating and brass aging processes, craftsmanship at its highest levels.

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