"... the panel we have planned will be great—a stellar group of cutting-edge thinkers in the design world served as judges in the competition, and several of them will be with us at Market for the discussion, including Antonio Larosa, chair of furniture design, Savannah College of Design; Jose Atienza, senior designer William McDonough & Partners; Andrea Mangini, lead experience designer, Adobe Systems; and Toby Israel, Ph.D., founder, Design Psychology.”
Read more at: http://www.editoratlarge.com/articles/658/one-good-world-series-begins-next-week
"...This event was to showcase the affects of green products as well, so there were several speakers worth mentioning. My favorite was Antonio Larosa, Chair and Professor of Furniture Design at SCAD..."
During the 2010 Las Vegas winter market, the Sustainable Furnishings Council partnered with World Market Center to present its first ECOngress event and its second DESIGNINGreen discussion, the latter featuring Kathy Ireland, HGTV’s Angelo Surmelis (both shown in the photo at right) and Dwell magazine Publisher Michela O’Connor Abrams.
More at: http://www.homeaccentstoday.com/blog/1930000393/post/1260052726.html
Italian Designers Create Passionate, Forward-focused Furnishings By San Antonio Express News
...Larosa traces the origin of Italian design to an actual Italian, Giuseppe Terragni. His 1930s-era Follia Chair and Sant’elia Armchair, two “absolutely modern masterpieces,” remain in production today, Larosa says.
Yet the real “explosion” of Italian design, he notes, evolved in the 1950s and 1960s with Achille Castiglioni and Marco Zanuso, among others...
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The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach By Fast Company
Retailer Design Within Reach helped create a new appreciation for the modernist aesthetic. With design more mainstream than ever, why is the company in such dire straits?
...That's like rap. You can sample other songs for a few seconds, says Antonio Larosa, chair of furniture design at the Savannah College of Art and Design...
Read full article at: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/141/a-modern-mess.html
Designers Against the iPodization of Society by Contract magazine
I realized early in life—long before I went to design school—the importance that design has in people's lives...
...Think of the buildings designed by Rem Koolhaas or Frank Gehry: They have a power over people...
Read article at: www.larosadesign.com/media/ContractMagAug07article.pdf
At NeoCon 09: SCAD Students Take School to Market By 3Rings
Savannah College of Art and Design, SCAD for short, lived up to its motto—“The University for Creative Careers”—with its well-designed, techno-savvy, and eco-friendly booth at NeoCon09. One of the best-looking exhibition spaces of this year’s show,
...Headed by the dapper Italian Antonio Larosa in his navy polka-dot tie, the SCAD booth showcased student-designed pieces.
Read more at: http://3rings.designerpages.com/2009/06/22/at-neocon09-scad-students-take-school-to-market/
Sniffing out a solution By Desert Living
Antonio Larosa wants his designs to make you feel good ... And maybe even help you make some new friends, too.
Read full article at: http://pedrolobo.com/consumer/Sniffing_Out_A_Solution.pdf
Italian designers create passionate, forward-focused furnishings By the Houston Chronicle
If you want the BMW of couches, try sitting for a spell in Italy.
Well, in a manner of speaking. In the same way German engineers have built a reputation for building sleek, fast cars, contemporary furniture designers seem to come out of the woodwork in Milan. Even if they’re not born there. The aesthetic is bold and modern, sleek and linear, with a surprising and elegant sense of movement, quality materials and craftsmanship. But what really makes Italian design special?
Passion, experts say.
In Italy, manufacturing companies are willing to take chances on new designers and their untested ideas, says Antonio Larosa, chairman of the Furniture Design department at Savannah College of Art and Design.
Read the full article at: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/main/6625752.html
Revolution in the Living Room: Conversation With a Furniture Designer By Fast Company
Antonio Larosa, a native of Milan, is chair of the SCAD furniture department and the kind of designer who makes you want to join the revolution. "American furniture design has been hibernating for fifty years," he said to me earlier this week. "I want to wake it up!"
Read full interview at: http://www.fastcompany.com/blog/paula-wallace/design-education-changing/revolution-living-room-conversation-furniture-designer
Savannah Design School Attracts Italy's Attention By Global Atlanta
Five students of furniture design at the Savannah College of Art and Design recently spent four weeks in the center of the universe for their chosen field, thanks to the government of Italy.
The Italian Trade Commission’s Atlanta office paid for the students to travel to Milan, Italy, the world’s furniture design capital.
...The chairman of SCAD’s furniture design program is Antonio Larosa, a graduate of Milan Polytechnic who worked at the Italian Trade Commission in Atlanta about 10 years ago. Last November, he invited Fabrizio Giustarini, the Italian trade commissioner in Atlanta, to visit Savannah.
Read full article at: http://www.globalatlanta.com/article/17377/
