Francesco Faccin

Francesco Faccin was born in Milan in 1977. After studying industrial design he worked in Enzo Mari’s studio and with the lute-maker Francesco Rivolta, then opened his own studio in Milan in 2007. From 2009 to 2015 he consulted for Michele De Lucchi, and in 2013 he was an Italian Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

He has designed for Danese, Miniforms and Tod’s and created Honey Factory, a micro-architecture for urban beekeeping, for Expo 2015. For Billiani he designed Green in 2017, a stackable solid ash chair based on 1930s Nordic design with tweaked proportions.