Tono and Renato J. Morganti
Architect Tono Morganti, a member of the Milan Chamber of Architects (Ordine degli Architetti di Milano), was born in Milan in 1939 and graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano in 1965.
He operates both in Italy and abroad, primarily in Spain and the United States, working in the fields of civil and industrial architecture, as well as interior and industrial design, creating furniture and home products.
From 1968 to 1978, he was a partner alongside Enrico D. Bona in the eponymous architecture firm, and from 1998 to 2010, he was a member of the Académie Européenne des Sciences et des Arts in Paris.
From 1989 to 2009, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the construction company Ing. A. Morganti S.r.l.—which has been executing major civil and industrial projects throughout Italy since 1905—with which he participated in numerous competitions and public tenders. Many of his works have been published in leading Italian 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, he has been collaborating with Enrico D. Bona since 1972 for the company Skipper, producing, among other pieces, the “Giano” table in marble or marble and glass, the “Concord” marble table, the “Mizar” armchair, the “Scanno” wooden armchairs, as well as home accessories, office furniture, and lighting fixtures.
In 2019, the “Carlo” table—a 1984 design revisited in collaboration with Renato J. Morganti—became part of the De Padova collection.
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Renato Jaime Morganti, an Italian-Spanish visual artist, studied music, decoration, sculpture, art, design, and architecture. In 2005, he graduated cum laude in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano; previously, in 1999, he earned his degree in sculpture from the HdK Berlin (now UdK Universität der Künste Berlin), where he subsequently obtained a Master of Fine Arts (2000).
Founder of the artistic group USURP Berlin (1998) and the interdisciplinary laboratory 6k | sixca Milano (2000), in 2010, alongside his artistic research, he established mar | meta art—an interdisciplinary project focused on developing design and concept-design projects based on collaborations and a systemic, “meta” philosophy. He has been honored with several international awards: his design for “Pavilion,” modular shading structures produced by Paola Lenti, won the 2015 INTERIOR INNOVATION AWARD (German Design Council); it was included in the 2014 ADI DESIGN INDEX, Milan; nominated for the 2015 GERMAN DESIGN AWARD; received the 2014 MIAW Muuuz International Design Awards, Paris; and the 2013 GOOD DESIGN AWARD, Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.
He collaborates with companies specializing in interior and urban design, including Paola Lenti and Metalco.
In 2019, on the occasion of the launch of the Carlo table designed by Tono Morganti and introduced into the De Padova collection, he collaborated on its reinterpretation.
