Hangar Design Group

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Founded in 1980, Hangar Design Group is an international design studio operating in the fields of product design, architecture, branding, and strategic communications. Born from the meeting between architects Alberto Bovo and Sandro Manente, the studio has built an identity based on the integration of diverse skills, transforming multidisciplinarity into the primary driver of its creative process. Two complementary personalities—one focused on strategic and organizational vision, the other on architectural planning and design—have created an approach capable of combining creativity, project culture, and business development.

Hangar Design Group's philosophy is based on passion and curiosity, elements that have guided the studio on a path of continuous evolution. Each project arises from the combination of research, innovation, and the ability to interpret societal changes, with the goal of building not just products, but experiences, identities, and lasting relationships between companies and people. Design is understood as a strategic tool, capable of integrating languages, disciplines, and skills into a unified vision. A symbolic moment in the studio's history coincides with the 1990 renovation of two historic airship hangars between Venice and Treviso, transformed into the agency's headquarters. This location perfectly embodies the studio's philosophy: enhancing existing assets to imagine the future. From here, a journey of international expansion began, leading to the opening of offices in Milan, New York, and Shanghai, solidifying Hangar Design Group as a creative network capable of operating on a global scale while maintaining a strong connection to Italian design culture.

The collaboration with Vistosi stems from a shared desire to reinterpret the tradition of Murano blown glass through a contemporary language. For the company, Hangar Design Group has designed the Futura, Groove, Peggy, and Stone collections, four projects that express different interpretations of light and material. Futura, the first collection created for Vistosi, won the 2015 Archiproducts Design Award for its innovative reinterpretation of blown glass. Peggy enhances the dialogue between overlapping volumes and transparencies, elegantly reinterpreting Venetian tradition, while Stone draws inspiration from the smooth forms of natural pebbles, transforming them into luminous sculptures that earned it the prestigious Good Design Award. Finally, with Groove, the studio further explores the balance between geometry, texture, and light, confirming its ability to combine design innovation and artisanal mastery.

Over the course of its history, Hangar Design Group has received numerous international awards, including the ADI Compasso d'Oro, the Red Dot Design Award, the Archiproducts Design Award, the Good Design Award, the European Product Design Award, and many others. Today, the studio continues to operate as an international network, interpreting design as a discipline capable of connecting creativity, strategy, and culture, transforming every project into an opportunity to generate value, innovation, and quality.

Collections made with Vistosi