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Chiara Massarani is an architect, Senior Project Director of the Milan-based architecture and interior design practice ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel. Graduating in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano in 2007, after a degree in management engineering, she started her collaboration with ACPV ARCHITECTS in 2008. 

At ACPV ARCHITECTS she has led several teams in interior design projects, particularly in the residential sector and in yacht design for international clients, such as the recent interiors project for the Custom Line Navetta 30 yacht. 

Laura May Todd is a Canadian-born, Milan-based journalist. Originally from the Rocky Mountain adjacent town of Calgary, Alberta, she went on to attend the University of Toronto where she studied English Literature and Art History. A dual British-Canadian citizen, she moved to London, England in 2012 to work in architectural editorial for the Arts publisher Phaidon Press. In late 2016 she then relocated to Milan, Italy, where she began freelance writing full time.

Tommaso Melilli is a chef and writer. He has a recipe column in Venerdi di Repubblica, his latest book is I conti con l'oste (Einaudi, 2020) and he is on the editorial staff of the magazine l'Integrale. 

He is the chef of the restaurant Gloria, in Milan.

Tuscan by birth, Milanese by choice. While still an art student, she began to immerse herself in the thousand faces of design, which soon became her world. Today she is passionate about writing (she collaborates regularly with AD Italia and has contributed, among others, to magazines such as World and Icon Design), with an eye firmly fixed on the 2.0 universe and new digital frontiers. Curious by nature, she never tires of asking questions and listening to stories. Words are her superpower, through which she narrates people and projects.

42 years old, she is a freelance journalist and media relations executive with a degree in Sociology from the University of Rome La Sapienza. She began her career in 2005 as a communications account and press officer in the television sector, at the MN - MEDIA NETWORK communication agency. After working as a freelance contributor for a number of youth magazines, in 2007 she worked in the press office of the Green parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies and, from 2007 to 2009, she was a journalist, presenter and reporter for the Eco TV channel (Sky 906).

Alessandro Mitola is a journalist and consultant specialising in the field of design, architecture and visual culture. He has worked in the editorial staff of ICON Design and collaborated with magazines such as Domus, Abitare, Rivista Studio, The Good Life, among others. Photography is a constant in his life, an expressive medium that has always gone hand in hand with writing.

Milanese by adoption for thirty-three years now, Modigliani continues to be extremely proud of having being born and raised in Florence. He inherited his passion for architecture and design from his parents, who when he was a kid took him to visit sensational places and locations around Italy and Europe. After completing classical studies, his first (much-loved) job was as a graphic designer. His passion for print media took him to work at the editorial offices of “L’Uomo Vogue”, “D la Repubblica delle Donne”, “Elle Decor Italia”, and “AD”, where he naturally moved on to writing.

Francesca Molteni, graduated in Philosophy at the Università degli Studi in Milan, studied Film Production at New York University. Since 2002, she produces and directs documentaries, tv formats, videos and installations, and curates design exhibitions. In 2009 she founded MUSE Factory of Projects, a production company based in Milan, particularly focusing on contemporary, design and architecture culture.

Antonio Monda is a writer and the Artistic Director of the international literary festival Le Conversazioni. He has directed the Rome Film Festival between 2015 and 2021. He teaches in the Film and Television Department at New York University. He is the director of several documentaries as well as the feature film Dicembre, and has curated exhibitions for the Louvre, MoMA, Lincoln Center and the Guggenheim Museum.

Graduated in art history and art criticism in Milan, she's currently taking care of the archive of Michele De Lucchi and Cini Boeri and their enhancement. Since 2015 she has been collaborating with Domus, curating the archive and she's currently writing for the paper and online versions. She also writes for Elle Decor, Meridiani, Artribune, Salonemilano, dealing with design, art, archives and interviewing characters linked to the culture of design.

Cristina Morozzi works as journalist, critic and art director in the fields of art, fashion and design.

Lauren Morris is an Amsterdam-based journalist, editor and communications specialist. Part of FRAME’s editorial team for over five years, she has a keen bird’s-eye view of the most salient topics in spatial design today, with particular interest in technology, craft and materials, and urbanism. Lauren has moderated at events including Milan Design Week, Dutch Design Week and Maison et Objet, and her first book for FRAME will be released this summer.   

She lives in Milan, where she works as a stylist, set designer and interior design journalist.

Luisa Nannipieri was born and raised in a small town just outside Milan. She studied journalism in France, where she worked for more than 13 years. Now based between Paris and Milan, she has worked for several companies like Le Monde, Liberation, the Italian networks RAI and Radio Popolare, for whom she has a weekly column on graphic novels. Since 2016 she has been covering design, fashion, gastronomy and architecture news for the French monthly publication Afrique Magazine, contributing to put the spotlight on the talents of the continent and its diasporas.