Oriano Favaretto

designer

Born in Silea, in the province of Treviso, in 1956, Oriano Favaretto is an Italian designer and artist who has forged his creative path by constantly moving between art, design, and experimentation. After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1982, he developed a design sensibility in which aesthetic research, material knowledge, and functionality coexist in perfect balance. For Favaretto, design represents a form of timeless beauty, capable of transcending fashion and establishing an authentic dialogue with people and spaces.

The years spent at the Academy profoundly influenced his development, thanks to his encounter with Emilio Vedova, a master who instilled in him the value of gesture, sign, and expressive freedom. Subsequently, his collaboration with Ennio Chiggio, first as an apprentice and then as an associate, consolidated his interest in design that combines artistic experimentation and industrial culture. From these experiences emerges a personal language, essential yet rich in content, in which each object is the result of a continuous search for balance between function, form, and emotion.

An independent designer and well-rounded artist, Oriano Favaretto approaches each project with a free and visionary approach. His creations are distinguished by pure lines, harmonious proportions, and a particular attention to the perceptual quality of materials. Rather than pursuing innovation as a stylistic exercise, he seeks solutions that last over time, enhancing the essence of objects and their relationship with light, space, and the person who uses them.

Throughout his career, he has collaborated with some of the most important Italian design and lighting companies, including Artemide, Venini, De Majo, Linea Light, Viabizzuno, Regia, Mastella Bagni, and many others, also serving as Art Director. At the same time, he continues to pursue artistic research through photography, graphics, and experimental projects developed in his own studio, maintaining the dialogue between art and design that characterizes all his work.

The collaboration with Vistosi stems from a shared appreciation of Murano blown glass as a material capable of expressing elegance, emotion, and innovation. For the company, he designed the Faro, Medea, Ninfea, and Riketta collections, four projects that interpret light through essential forms and balanced proportions, highlighting the artisanal quality of glass and its extraordinary ability to interact with space. The collections reflect Favaretto's design poetics, where formal simplicity becomes a tool to highlight the material and transform light into an architectural element of great expressive power.

Over the course of his career, Oriano Favaretto has received major awards, including the Murano Prize, the Lampada d'Oro in Paris, and the Prix d'Excellence Marie Claire for the Polipò lamp. His works are exhibited at the Murano Glass Museum and are part of numerous private collections, evidence of a path that continues to move effortlessly between art and design, always guided by the pursuit of authentic and timeless beauty.

Collections made with Vistosi