Tono and Renato J. Morganti

Architect Tono Morganti, a member of the Milan Order of Architects, was born in Milan in 1939 and in 1965 graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Milan.

He works both in Italy and abroad, mainly in Spain and the United States, in the field of civil and industrial architecture as well as of interior and industrial design, creating furniture and household products.

From 1968 to 1978 he was a partner, with Enrico D. Bona, of the architecture studio of the same name, and from 1998 to 2010 he was a member of the Académie Européenne des Sciences et des Arts, Paris.

From 1989 to 2009 he was President of the Board of Directors of the construction company Ing. A. Morganti Ltd. – that since 1905 has been implementing major civil and industrial projects throughout Italy – with which he participated in numerous competitions and tenders; many of his works were published in Italian leading architecture magazines (Domus, Casabella, Interni, Ville e Giardini, Cree, Gran Bazar, L’Industria delle Costruzioni, and L’Industria Italiana del Cemento).

In the field of industrial design, since 1972 he has been collaborating with Enrico D. Bona from the Skipper company, with which he has produced, among others, the marble or marble and glass “Giano” table, the marble “Concord” table, the “Mizar” armchair, the wooden “Scanno” armchairs, as well as household products, office furniture, and lamps.

In 2019, the “Carlo” table, a 1984 design revamped in collaboration with Renato J. Morganti, was included in the De Padova collection.

Renato Jaime Morganti, an Italian-Spanish visual artist, has studied music, decoration, sculpture, art, design, and architecture. In 2005, he graduated with honours in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan; previously, in 1999 he graduated in sculpture from the HdK in Berlin (now UdK Universität der Künste Berlin), where he later obtained a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts (2000).

Founder of the artistic group USURP Berlin (1998) and of the interdisciplinary laboratory 6k | sixca Milano (2000), in 2010, while he was carrying out his artistic research, he also launched mar | meta art, an interdisciplinary project focused on the development of design and concept-design projects based on collaborations and a systemic and meta philosophy. He was awarded with international prizes: his project for “Pavilion”, modular shading structures produced by Paola Lenti, won the INTERIOR INNOVATION AWARD 2015, German Design Council; 2014 ADI DESIGN INDEX 2014, Milan; nomination for GERMAN DESIGN AWARD 2015; MIAW Muuuz International Design Awards 2014, Paris; 2013 GOOD DESIGN AWARD, Chicago Athenaeum, Museum of Architecture and Design.

He collaborates with companies specialising in interior and urban design, such as Paola Lenti and Metalco.

In 2019, on the occasion of the launch of the Carlo table design by Tono Morganti, included in the De Padova collection, he collaborated on its reinterpretation.