Romani Saccani Architects

The architectural firm ROMANI SACCANI ARCHITETTI ASSOCIATI was founded in 1999 as the result of a professional collaboration between architects Michele Romani and Mauro Saccani, which had begun several years earlier during their shared educational journey—first as students in the Design program at the Public Art Institute of Monza, and then as classmates during their architecture program at the Polytechnic University of Milan (1998), where they worked on a joint thesis dedicated to the redevelopment and landscape enhancement of the historic site “Le cinque corti di Bernate” in the municipality of Arcore, which was designated and recognized as a positive initiative by the Lombardy Region, as attested in 2009.

After working as freelancers with several architecture firms in the Milan suburbs and participating in various design and architecture competitions (in 1999, they won third prize in the competition for the renovation and expansion of the Ornago town hall with the project “Il cubo e la piazza”), they are now increasingly turning their attention to the product design sector and count among their clients numerous collaborations with design firms, in the lighting sector as well as in furniture and interior accessories.

Each of their new concepts arises from a conscious reinterpretation of the memory of the past and becomes an act of synthesis between imagination and reality, a challenge to the weight of norms and habits. The “simpler” the underlying idea, the more successful the project will be: “simplicity”—which never means banality—is thus understood as the purest form of elegance and a rejection of excess and vulgarity, as an essential and pure ability to convey the authentic meaning of things. A unique product, designed collaboratively but above all empathetic, as it is intended to evoke in the user a shared emotional connection and affection for its use.