Matteo Thun

Matteo Thun was born in Bolzano in 1952, studied at the Salzburg Academy under Oskar Kokoschka and Emilio Vedova, and graduated in architecture in Florence in 1975. In 1981 he co-founded Memphis with Ettore Sottsass, and later taught design and ceramics at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.

He opened his Milan studio in 1984, was art director of Swatch from 1990 to 1993 and was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame in 2004. With his partner Antonio Rodriguez he designed the Bourgeois table for Baxter, on a sandblasted cast-iron base.