Valentina Iannazzone

Valentina Iannazzone was born in Benevento (Italy).
Lives and works in Italy, previously lived in London.
She attended the University of Architecture at University of Florence, where she graduated in 2003 with a degree on a Yacht for disabled people featured on MODO in the same year.
Assistant lecturer to Ubertazzi in Florence, the following year won a scholarship to study Interactive Design to the prestigious Domus Academy in Milan.
After the master she worked for Marco Piva, a renewed architect in Milan and after with Patricia Urquiola a worldwide famous designer.
In 2006 was working firstly for the prestigious Mandarin Oriental in Barcelona and then became the responsible of the FF&E department and trend research.
After experimenting independent and freelance projects, such residential projects and retail projects.
In 2014 she moved to London working for the worldwide renewed company AEDAS.
Then she worked for Fusion Interiors Group and Lawson Robb.

Her experience is extremely diverse working from Interior design to styling, making sample board and designing products.

She recently had a collective exhibition at Swing Design Gallery, in Benevento, Italy.
Featuring her collection “RUINS”.

In January 2020 she f...

DESIGN TEACHING AND CONSULTING
April-2013
Fiera Rho, LAGO BOOTH “Retail” workshop moderator for LAGO company during the Milano design week.
March2011- July2011
Economy Faculty, La Sapienza University, Rome.Teaching for “Retail design course”.
October2010- July2010
IED, Florence Teacher for “Colors, materials and finishes issues”, C.M.F.,interior design course.

May-December 2003
Design Faculty, Calenzano, Florence, Italy. Assistant for Alessandro Ubertazzi “Industrial design course”.
EDUCATION
December 2003-December 2004
Master Degree in Interaction design- Advanced concepts for the development and graphic communication
of spaces, products, events, services. Domus Academy, Milan, Italy.
September 1997-April 2003
BA Degree in Architecture with Interior design specialization. Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italy.
SOFTWARES
AutoCAD 2d ,Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, In design, Office Word, Excel.
LANGUAGES
ITALIAN - Mother Tongue / ENGLISH – Fluent / SPANISH – Basic

Italian artist selected by Benedetta Spagnuolo 2011

Pop up Store_Swing Design Gallery December 2019

Selected by Gigarte, Galerie Thuillier, Paris May 2021