COKI. Nature in designs / BIO

ITALIAN nATURAL MATERIALS IN CONTEMPORARY DESIGN

"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

With her eponymous housewares label, Italian product and architecture designer Coki Barbieri brings to life 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 also offers new materials, starting from fragments and scraps of stone and mineral processing. Together with the craftsmen, Coki has developed a waste-free production and logistics chain. The production cycle exploits the sun and air's power to create many components of the projects, thus offsetting a part 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

Architecture

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