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Suzanne Santos has played an integral role in Aesop’s development since its establishment in Melbourne in 1987, having been consistently involved in critical aspects of the company’s evolution—first in Australia, and then across the globe. 

(1988) Sanzarello is a furniture stylist and set designer. Classically educated, she graduated in Interior design at Milan’s Polytechnic she currently lives, works and teaches in Milan.
Her collaborations with companies and communication agencies allow her to range from design to fashion, from retail to editorial pieces. As an accumulator of special and natural objects, she is particularly interested in researching the emotions that each object can spark, and loves to compose still lifes to orchestrate photographic interpretations tuned into the most original contemporary trends.

Serena is a journalist and Head of Content at MoSt, the creative agency of Studio Editoriale. She is the managing editor of Urbano, a magazine on culture in urban spaces and cities. Serena is a lecturer on magazine design at Naba and brand journalism at Luiss University. She is author of the book “Communication: less is more”. Serena was born in Pescara, and has been living in Milan for 15 years. She has lived in Rome, Madrid, and Bruxelles.

Peter-Philipp Schmitt first met Marva Griffin in Milan in 2002. It was his first Salone del Mobile and her fifth SaloneSatellite. He was impressed by the sheer number of young designers from all over the world who had the opportunity to show their work at this widely celebrated fair. Since then he has visited the SaloneSatellite every year, partly to seek out up-and-coming German designers, to write about them, such as, for example, Sebastian Herkner from Offenbach, whom Schmitt discovered in 2009 and who is now world renowned. 

Always in search of the detail that makes the difference, of the content that stands out, of innovation that looks beyond, she uses her training as an architect to build editorial projects.  

As freelance journalist, she has collaborations with print and web magazines of Architecture and Design: Domus, Abitare, Case da Abitare, Auto & Design, Box, Case Design Stili, www.design-italia.it, www.floornature.com, www. houzz.it, www.youmanist.it, FieramilanoMedia.  

(Milan, 1988). He specializes in film photography, blending portraiture, architecture, landscape, conceptual, and fashion photography. With an eye for simple moments with cinematic quality, vibrant saturated colours, high exposure and contrast, he creates individual, stand alone works that frame an intimate connection between viewer and subject – adding on his distinctive tone of irony and imagination.  

Libby Sellers is a design historian, independent curator and writer based in London.

She was former senior curator of London’s Design Museum (2000-2007) and supported emerging design through her eponymous gallery (2007-2015). Now Libby focuses on writing and curation for personal initiatives, private galleries and public institutions, including her most recent for Frieze New York 2020 on the materiality of colour. She has authored numerous essays, catalogues and publications on design.

Diletta Sereni directs l'Integrale, a magazine-book published by Iperborea that chronicles contemporaneity through food. She has written for Marie Claire, Vice, Corriere della Sera and other newspapers. She has a doctorate in visual semiotics and has taught semiotics at IED Milan.

For more than 30 years, Snøhetta has designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects. Snøhetta kick-started its career in 1989 with the competition-winning entry for the new library of Alexandria, Egypt. This was later followed by the commission for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City, among many others.

A humanities-based education followed by a degree in Foreign Literature and Languages – and then a specialisation in journalism (her thesis was on the journalistic narration of 40 years of apartheid in South Africa) and a Masters in Business Communication – enabled her to embark immediately on a career involving information, public relations and events organisation.

Valentina Sommariva lives and works in Milan, where she was born in 1986. As both a journalist and publicist, she specialises in interior design, travel and portrait photography. After graduating in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic she went on to study design in London, and earned a master's in contemporary photography and video art in Modena.

Valentina has put together campaigns and catalogues for leading design firms, and her work appears in prominent international magazines published in Italy, the UK, the United States and France.

Alessandro Squatrito is a multidisciplinary designer who lives in Milan and works on design between the physical and the digital contents. Interested in contemporary issues concerning technology and the social effects of design, he has collaborated with important international studios with projects ranging from product, installation and visual communication. He currently works as a freelancer and alongside his work as designer he also teaches. He has held courses and workshops at IED, Politecnico di Milano, Abadir, UniRSM and HfG Karlsruhe.

Originally from the UK, Ed Stocker is Monocle magazine’s Europe editor at large, based in Milan since 2020. Previously he was the publication’s Americas editor, covering the US and Latin America, based in New York. Before joining Monocle, he spent almost five years in Buenos Aires, covering the Southern Cone region for international newspapers, magazines and radio stations. In his capacity as Europe editor, Ed regularly travels around the continent, from Lithuania to Spain, where he covers diverse topics for the magazine and radio.

Ludovica Serafini + Roberto Palomba founded Palomba Serafini Studio in 1994. 

The hallmark of the studio merges from the founders' ability to combine a contemporary vision of society and people's needs, with a broad knowledge of the historical and cultural roots of architecture and design, producing results that blend the past with the future.  

This unique and personal approach makes Palomba Serafini's reality particularly sensitive to questions related to the function and the need to create long-lasting products and architectures.