Patricia Urquiola: Know More About The Top Interior Designer

This top interior designer from Spain is one of the reasons we love interior design!

Born in Oviedo, Spain but living in Italy Patricia Urquiola is a famous interior designer, architect and designer. She is known internationally thanks to her great designs that are versatile and creative, colorful and youthful. Get to know more about this top interior designers and check out some of her best work right here!


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Patricia Urquiola’s work is widely known to be playful and poetic, yet pragmatic and functional, a creative combination that is the magic behind her work. She comes and goes through conventional time – rethinking, reinventing, and creating new. The effect is a powerful reminder of the past and exploration into the now, always creating a new experience for the user.

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Patricia Urquiola started her journey through this amazing universe when she attended the school of architecture of Madrid Polytechnic and also the Milan polytechnic, where she graduated in 1989 with Achille Castiglioni. Curiously, Patricia Urquiola was an assistant lecturer to both Achille Castiglioni and Eugenio Bettinelli in Milan and Paris, between 1990 and 1992.

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After that, Patricia Urquiola‘s career really began to move forward when she became responsible for the new product development office of De Padova, a chance which allowed her to work alongside with Vico Magistretti. However, the Spanish designer recognizes the influence and lessons she won with the influence of having socialized and worked alongside Castiglioni.

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Her design is clean and she creates pretty and unique pieces. She stands out for the original designs of objects and furniture that she produces for the best and most important international firms. The designer of some of the most emblematic pieces in the current range, she created the Maia collection, one of her most characteristic works, for Kettal.

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Some of her products are exposed in the permanent collection of Moma in New York and other international museums. Patircia Urquiola has won several international prices and awards, amongst others the medalla de oro al mérito en las Bellas Artes 2010 awarded by the Spanish government (2011) and the A&W magazine nomination as designer of the year 2012.

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From the 90s to this day Patricia Urquiola definitely has a very complete and unique career regarding a variety of interior design projects as well as luxury furniture. However, when it comes to her victories, she provides an interesting perspective in which she also enhances the importance of oneself looking at failures.

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When it comes to working with other designers Patricia Urquiola has definitely socialized with many relevant design figures in the industry. Aside from Achille Castiglioni, Piero Lissoni and Vico Magistretti, she also recently cooperated with Rossana Orlandi on an ironic daybed, more specifically the Wasting Time Daybed, that is made out of recycled plastics. Patricia Urquiola also cooperated with top bespoke brands which include  Alessi, B&B Italia, De Padova, Flos, Foscarini, Glas Italia, Kartell, Maurice Lacroix, Liv’it, Moroso, Mutina, Panasonic, Paola Lenti, among many others.

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