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Wu Bin is the founder of W.DESIGN China and the forward-thinking visionary known for his unique interior design style, "Modern Orientalism." With more than two decades of success in interior design across Asia and beyond, Wu seamlessly blends traditional Eastern aesthetics with Western modernist design techniques, leading the way in transformative design and cultural fusion. His respect for heritage and global perspective breaks boundaries and transcends space and experience, inspiring and captivating audiences worldwide.

Binet is an internationally renowned Swiss-French photographer based in London. She studied photography at the European Design Institute in Rome, where she spent most of her formative years. Over more than 35 years, Binet has immortalized both contemporary and historical architecture. A fervent supporter of analogue photography, she works exclusively with film.

Jean Blanchaert (Milan, 1954) is a contemporary art gallerist, curator and art critic. The Galleria Blanchaert, in Milan, set up in 1957 by his mother Silvia, has held hundreds of exhibitions in Italy and abroad featuring the work of some of the leading artists/craftsmen in the world. Blanchaert has curated dozens of exhibitions in institutional places, on glass, ceramics, iron, wood and marble, as well as art and photography.

He has been a permanent contributor to the monthly magazine Art e Dossier (Giunti Editore) since 2008. 

Graduated from the Polytechnic of Milan, she has her own professional studio in Biella. 

She works for both public and private clients, carrying out building and urban recovery projects, installations, furnishings and strategic planning for associations and institutions. 

She was president of the Order of Architects of Biella, President of ADI, President of WDO World Design Organization. She’s currently a Senator of WDO. 

Stefano Boeri, architect and urban planner, is Full Professor of Urban Planning at Politecnico di Milano and Director of the Future City Lab at Tongji University in Shanghai. Since 2018 he has been President of Triennale Milano and since 2020 he has chaired the Scientific Committee of Forestami, the urban forestry project in the Milan metropolitan area.
Architect of the Bosco Verticale (Boeri Studio, Milan, 2014), Stefano Boeri is one of the main players in the debate on climate change in the field of international architecture.

The Director of Artissima International Fair of Contemporary Art since 2017, Ilaria Bonacossa is an art critic and curator. With a degree in Contemporary Art History from the State University of Milan, after taking a master in curatorial studies at Bard College (USA) she worked in New York at the Whitney Museum. For nine years curator of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin, in 2007 she was a member of the Jury for the Leone d’Oro of the 52nd Venice Art Biennale.

Jean-Philippe Bonnefoi is Aesop’s Head of Retail Design for Europe, and Global Head of Innovation. He trained as an architect at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Malaquais before joining Aesop nearly 14 years ago. During his tenure with the company, he has worked across Retail, Visual Merchandising and Store Design.

Renato Bosco, born in Verona in 1967, entered the hospitality world at a very young age: by 14 he was already waitering and at 18 he started working in the pizza world, discovering a great interest in yeasts, flours and doughs. This then became a very real, powerful passion, one that has never left him, leading to bread and pizza, the huge discovery of sourdough in 1996, and an ongoing desire to learn, master and experiment, including pastry making.

From Puglia to Rome, by way of the United States – Cristina Bowerman’s trajectory has been an unusual one - born in Puglia, she took a degree in law followed by lengthy experience, first in San Francisco and then in Texas. It was here that she took her first steps in the cookery world, after a second degree in Culinary Arts at the Culinary Academy in Austin. She decided to return to Italy to study gastronomy in 2004 for what was meant to be a short time, but Rome then became her second home.

Head of the Press and Communication Office at the Salone del Mobile.Milano. Fifty years’ old and a professional journalist, he has had extensive publishing experience in the field of economics, innovation and design with leading national newspapers and furnishing sector periodicals.  

His in-depth knowledge of the sector saw him join FederlegnoArredo in 2011 as Head of the Wood Sector Press Office. 

Sujata Burman is a writer and editor based in London, specialising in design and culture. She was Digital Design Editor at Wallpaper* Magazine before moving to her current role of Digital Editor at London Design Festival and London Design Biennale where she is expanding the content offering of the showcases. In 2019, she co-authored her first book, An Opinionated Guide to London Architecture, published by Hoxton Mini Press, which was driven by her aim to make the fields of design and architecture accessible to wider audiences.

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Felix Burrichter is a New York-based creative director, curator, editor, and publisher. Born in Düsseldorf, Germany, he was trained as an architect in Paris and New York. In 2006 Felix founded the multimedia platform PIN–UP, a self-described “Magazine for Architectural Entertainment” with a biannual print edition, of which he is the editorial and creative director. In addition to PIN–UP, Burrichter curates exhibitions and consults on design and architecture projects for various design brands.

Katrina works across The Times and The Sunday Times as interiors editor, and has written a design column for the paper for over a decade. Her first editing job was at a magazine about stolen art, and she subsequently wrote about collecting for the Evening Standard and the Financial Tmes's How to Spend It magazine. Her focus is now on all types of design for the home, from the luxury market to high street collections.

Sergio Buttiglieri has been since 2006 Style Director of Sanlorenzo, the first shipyard in the world as mono-brand for yachts and super-yachts beyond 24 metres. Of classical background, he was educated in Parma, where he studied with the eminent art historian Arturo Quintavalle. 

In the wake of an enduring passion, he is also a long- time author of theatrical and artistic reviews for several journals.