The jury

Carlo Piemonte
General Director Home Furniture Cluster FVG

Carlo Piemonte has developed his professional career in the regional and national context contributing significantly to the innovation and valorisation of the Made in Italy system, with a particular focus on the design and wood-furniture sectors as well as on the wood forestry supply chains. He has developed transversal skills in the strategic management of clusters and in the promotion of Italian production chains on global markets, holding significant leadership roles, including General Manager of the Cluster Legno Arredo Casa FVG, President of Legno Servizi Cluster Forestale del FVG, CEO of the International Center of Italian Design, Technical Advisor of the Direzione Foreste ed Economia della Montagna at the Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forests and, more recently, Director of the National Cluster Italia Foresta based in Rome. Member of the Coordination Group for the National Bioeconomy at the Presidency of the Council and of the Working Group of the Circular Bio-Based Europe Joint Undertaking, he has contributed to the definition of national strategies in the forestry sector and in the field of the Bioeconomy. At the same time, he has built a network of international relations for projects to promote Italian design and furniture.

Claudio Gambardella
Former Full Professor of Industrial Design at DADI/Vanvitelli

Claudio Gambardella, architect, designer and ADI member, was Professor of Industrial Design at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’.
He is a member of the Scientific Committee of SYMBOLA, Foundation for Italian Qualities, and on his behalf is a member of the Advisory Board of the Doctorate of National Interest in ‘Design for Made in Italy: Identity, Innovation and Sustainability’.
The main line of research, which he has been working on for about 40 years, concerns the valorisation of that design that manages to dialogue with the best forms of local craftsmanship for the development of what he defines as ‘Handmade in Italy’, the name of the ADI Thematic Commission that he founded in 2017 and has been coordinating ever since.

Claudio Papa
Designer and Vice President ADI delegation of Friuli Venezia Giulia

Claudio Papa qualified as an Industrial Designer in 1991 at the ISIA Roma Design. Thanks to an eight-year collaboration with Carlo Urbinati, designer at Jacuzzi, he approached the bathroom furniture sector, in which he still works today. On the strength of this experience, he was subsequently called by Albatros, a historic company in the wellness sector, and became art director for the company’s relaunch. He is currently art director at Disenia, a company that is part of the IdeaGroup, with which he created and presented ‘The Wellness Collection’ at the Cersaie 2023 trade fair. In addition, Papa is responsible for the design-related activities of Archipelago, a cultural project and business network as well as a meeting place for interior design professionals. ADI Vice President for the Friuli Venezia Giulia territorial delegation.

Marina Jonna
Architetto, Giornalista e Editor At Large Design Diffusion World 

With a degree in Architecture from Milan Polytechnic, she has worked as an editor for numerous magazines including La Mia Casa, Casaviva, Panorama (on the site and as Social Media Manager) and Icon Design. In the same years, she followed as an author at R101, the programmes hosted by Dini and Lester and by Gialappa’s, as well as later becoming a regular correspondent for the same radio station with articles on design and production. From 2019 she became a freelancer, leaving Mondadori, to dedicate herself to what she loves most: telling stories about products, companies and people. He has collaborated with INTERNI, AD, Domus, IFDM and The Good Life, Grazia. Today he is Editor at Large of DDN and design consultant for Grazia.

Patrizia Moroso
Art Director Moroso 

Patrizia Moroso, Art-director of Moroso S.p.a., a family business specialising in the production of sofas, armchairs and furnishing accessories, joined the management team in the mid-1980s and in just a few years transformed the company into a leading international design brand.
Endowed with a strong creative and innovative spirit, Patrizia has in her DNA an insatiable curiosity for all forms of art that leads her to be ahead of her time. As early as 1988 she began working with Ron Arad, who designed her first collection of upholstered furniture. In 1999 she began working with Patricia Urquiola, today a star of international architecture and design. In 2004, the one with Tord Boontje, while in 2007 it was the turn of Tokujin Yoshioka, named designer of the year at Miami Basel shortly afterwards.
Also since 2003, she began to realise the idea of collaborating with contemporary art; the site-specific installation by artist Michael Lin marks the beginning of this new quest. A keen talent scout, she loves working with diversity and in groups. Her very feminine disposition to contact has made the designers work on the skin of objects, leaving them free to rediscover applied arts (weaving, embroidery, decoration) and to experiment with all possible materials. But it doesn’t stop there, in love with art the Lady of Design amazes by devising in 2010, together with curator Andrea Bruciati, a Moroso award for contemporary art which will develop into the final selection of three winners who will be hosted in residence in London, New York and Milan to install their works in Moroso showrooms in the three cities during the relevant contemporary art fairs.

Sandro Fabbro
Fabbro Arredi Owner

Sandro Fabbro graduated from the Cecconi Professional Technical Institute in S. Giovanni al Natisone and, from an early age, became passionate about furniture production techniques in his father Elvio’s workshop, which he took over in 1991. Aware of the need for change, he pushes the company beyond classic carpentry, aiming to specialise in the interior furnishing sector and implementing the company with a technical department and a workshop capable of carrying out the entire production cycle to guarantee maximum product quality. It innovates the production department with state-of-the-art machinery to realise the most flexible and complex shapes. He collaborates with important designers and architects to create unique, high quality furniture, opening up to new realities that lead the company to experiences even beyond its borders. In recent years, he was awarded the Master Craftsman diploma and his workshop was recognised as a ‘Bottega Scuola’. Always attentive to the world of design and art, he organises events and participates with his creations in exhibitions and shows.