"When I draw, I imagine a curious person who will observe a new material: will touch it, use it, and keep it with great care, and will begin to love it seriously. I think could be a person who moves silent revolutions made of listening, research, and awareness of our contemporaneity and the importance of our souls; for that, this person will choose my products".
COKI BARBIERI | Architectural and Product Designer | Founder & Creative director
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With COKI, founded in 2017, the Italian product and architectural designer Coki Barbieri brings a new approach to natural materials through forms inspired by rationalist architecture and the morphologies of animal and plant kingdoms. The studio and design laboratory is located on the first hills of Rimini, overlooking the Adriatic Sea and surrounded by thick spontaneous vegetation, in which every little creature of the area is a constant source of inspiration. The geometries and connections between the elements are first designed with cardboard and cork prototypes, then defined with hand drawings and digitally. Handicraft production aims to recover local raw materials and preserve ancient working stone, glass, and metal methods. Combining notions of geology, chemistry, and design culture, COKI offers new materials, from fragments and stone scraps and mineral processing. Coki and the artisans have developed a waste-free production and logistics chain. The production cycle exploits the sun and air's power to create many project components, thus offsetting some of the CO2 emissions due to borosilicate glass and stainless steel processing. In 2020 the brand won the Green Product Award and was internationally recognized for its sustainable and ethical approach to product design.
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CHOSEN BY
2023 MICOL CERANI, MA! STUDIO Styling for ELLE DECOR
2023 SALONESATELLITE Styling for EUROLUCE-SALONE DEL MOBILE
2023 STUDIO GRETA CEVENINI Styling for SABA
2023 CONTI MARCHETTI Styling for ACQUA DI PARMA
2023 CONTI MARCHETTI Styling for FIAM
2022 STUDIO GRETA CEVENINI Styling for SABA
2022 CONTI MARCHETTI Styling for FIAM
2022 CORA VOHWINKEL Styling for Arketipo Firenze
2022 VERONICA LEALI with Alessia Biasion Styling for CIERRE 1972
2022 DECO HOME Styling for June issue
2022 SARA SARLI Styling for CATTELAN
2021 STUDIO SALARIS Styling for RUBELLI GROUP
awards
2022 SALONE SATELLITE PERMANENT COLLECTION with Rocklumìna lamp
2020 GREEN PRODUCT AWARD, 1st prize
2007 Next: International Car Design, 1st prize
with Alessandro Ajmino, Elena Marrone, Federica Castagno & Sara Petrucci (now Acquacalda Design)
2007 Pietra di Langa e Design, 1st prize
book quotes
2021 "Soil, Surface, Sky" by L. Swift,
E. Marinova, V. Del Vacchio, ed. Cluster, London 2021
2020 "We design the future" N. Bader, GREEN PRODUCT AWARD, Berlin 2020
selected
exhibitions
2023 SALONE DEL MOBILE 2023 - EUROLUCE - Milan - Sate...Light 1998-2022
2023 FUORISALONE 2023 - ELLE DECOR - Milan - The Art of Light
2022 SALONE DEL MOBILE 2022 - Milan - Vitamins from the Italian soils
2022 MAISON & OBJET - Paris - The new Soil & Season Cochlea vases collection
2021 LONDON DESIGN WEEK - Soil,
Surface, Sky by Cluster Crafts, London
2021 MILAN DESIGN WEEK - Nature's Whisper by Isola Design District, Milan
2020 LONDON CRAFTS WEEK
2020 ISOLA DESIGN DISTRICT - Isola Goes Digital
2020 GREEN PRODUCT AWARD
2019 SALONE SATELLITE AWARD
2016 LA CERAMICA E IL PROGETTO
2011 Nhow Hotel restyling - Triennale di Milano
2008 Mini Design Award
2007 Next: International Car Design
with Alessandro Ajmino, Elena Marrone, Federica Castagno & Sara Petrucci (now Acquacalda Design)
2007 Pietra di Langa e Design
educational
background
2017 User Experience (UX) E-learning Research and Design MicroMaster Program (University of Michigan)
2015 CasaClima network - Agenzia per l'Energia Alto Adige - CasaClima (Bolzano)
2011 Public Spaces Advanced Training - POLIMI Politecnico di Milano (Milan)
2011 Architecture - Building Engineer Science Bachelor's Degree - UNIBO Alma Mater Studiorum di Bologna (Cesena) 110/110
2007 Interior Designer ID European Graduated IED Istituto Europeo di Design (Turin) 100/100
UNIVERSITY THESIS-BOOK
C. Barbieri, 2011 La concezione strutturale nel design industriale, The structural concept in industrial design
Bologna, UNIBO Alma Mater Studiorum
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