Paola Navone

Paola Navone was born in Turin in 1950 and graduated in architecture from the city’s Politecnico in 1973. She worked alongside Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi in the Alchimia group, won the Osaka International Design Award in 1983 and was named Designer of the Year by Architektur & Wohnen in 2000.

She runs OTTO, her Milan design studio, and has completed projects for hotels and restaurants across South East Asia. For Baxter she has designed the Chester Moon, Budapest, Chicago and Miami Beach sofas and the Nepal and Bruxelles armchairs.