Paola Navone
- Birthdate
- 1950
- Nationality
- Italian
- Occupation
- Designer, architect
Paola Navone is an architect, designer, art director and interior architect. Born in Turin in 1950, she is a Milanese by adoption. She trained at Turin Polytechnic, graduating with a master's degree in 1973. In 1979, she joined the Alchimia group of Italian designers, where she worked with Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Branzi, among others. Paola Navone won the International Designer Award in Osaka in 1983. From 1985 to 1988, she worked for the United Nations as a consultant and traveled to many countries.
Authentic, dreamy, eclectic: her spirit is divided between the flavors and colors of her beloved and frequented southern world, and her taste for the forms of the West, rich in tradition, open and in perpetual motion. It is from all this that she draws her inexhaustible curiosity in search of materials, forms and structures, in the present, past and future.
She has directed numerous exhibitions worldwide. In 1983, she won the Osaka International Design Awards, and in 2000, she was named Designer of the Year by the German magazine Architektur & Wohnen. In 2011, she won 2 projects at the Elle Déco International Design Awards. In 2014, she was named a member of the prestigious Design Hall of Fame by Design Magazine. She collaborates with the most important brands on the international and Italian design scene.
In 2016, Fontana Arte published the beautiful Pinecone blown glass collection.
