Profile

Michele Anderlini

Interior and product designer. A craftsman who uses the tools of the future without forgetting how things are made.

From oak dust to virtual reality.

My professional training began in my family’s joinery workshop. There I learned that a material does not passively execute a drawing: it reacts, imposes limits and offers possibilities. Technical studies and training at IED Milan added different tools to that practical knowledge.

My years at Luca Scacchetti’s studio were the most important collaboration of my professional life. Since then I have worked with private clients, craftspeople and companies in very different contexts, while keeping one rule: function first, form second.

Brutal. Honest.

I do not believe in creativity for its own sake. My way of designing is preliminary analysis, problem solving, focused strategy, bespoke care and two per cent creativity.

Background

Different experiences, a consistent method.

Origins

The joinery workshop

Years of work and observation among timber, machinery, hardware and real production problems.

Education

Technical expertise and design

The rigour of surveying studies meets design education at IED Milan.

Milan

Luca Scacchetti

Working with my mentor and friend consolidated a view of design as a moral discipline, not merely an aesthetic one.

Today

Designmad

Interior, hospitality and product design integrated with rendering, virtual reality and material research.

“As a surveyor, I learned that two parallel lines never meet. At IED, I understood that they can remain in dialogue forever.”
Michele Anderlini