Matteo Thun & Partners

Matteo Thun & Partners is a Milan-based architecture and design studio, with a second office in Shanghai. It was founded in 1984 by Matteo Thun, a co-founder of the Memphis Group alongside Ettore Sottsass. Born in Bolzano in 1952, Thun studied in Salzburg under Oskar Kokoschka and graduated in architecture from the University of Florence in 1975. He went on to win the Compasso d’Oro three times and was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in New York in 2004. Today the studio brings together an interdisciplinary team of architects and interior, product and graphic designers. It works across hospitality, healthcare, residential, workplace and retail projects as well as product design.

The studio’s work is guided by timeless simplicity and the human scale. It prioritises aesthetic durability, technological longevity and the long-term life of every building and object. Hospitality is a particular specialty, from luxury hotels to residences with character, often delivered as complete turnkey concepts spanning architecture, interiors and lighting. Wellbeing sits at the heart of the practice, most clearly in its healthcare projects, where the relationship between people and their surroundings comes first. Every project grows out of a dialogue between client, place, community and culture.

That sensibility carries through to the studio’s lighting for Artemide. Laguna, designed by Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez with hotel and residential interiors in mind, pairs a hand-blown opaline glass diffuser with a slender metal base and LED technology. The Choose family, introduced in 2006, reimagines the classic bedside lamp with a soft parchment diffuser and spans table, floor, wall and pendant versions. Both reflect the studio’s belief that good design should be quietly elegant and built to last.

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