Paola Navone
Pestelli Creazioni

Paola Navone, an architect, interior designer, product designer and art director born in Turin in 1950, is one of the most influential designers on the international scene. Her career, which began with the Alchimia group alongside great masters such as Alessandro Mendini and Ettore Sottsass, has evolved into a unique design style capable of blending heritage and innovation. She has a visionary and eclectic approach, fuelled by constant travel, with a passion for the flavours and colours of the much-loved southern hemisphere, alongside tastes and styles from the western world with its wealth of tradition, open-mindedness and creative energy. All of this has resulted in her boundless curiosity, seeking out materials, forms and structures, from the present, the past and the future. otto is her Milan-based multi-disciplinary design studio that collaborates with a wide portfolio of international clients through a range of projects from interior design to furniture and accessory design, including graphics, style and creative direction. From the architectural to the product design scale, right down to the details of styling and decoration. She collaborates with brands such as Alessi, Abet Laminati, Baxter, Bisazza, Cappellini, Exteta, Rubelli, Swatch and Gervasoni, for which she served as Creative Director for over 20 years.

Pestelli creazioni is the renowned workshop of Tommaso Pestelli, a Florentine master goldsmith and jeweller, graduated from Opificio delle Pietre Dure as a restorer in the field of goldsmithing and glyptic art, specialising in the restoration of metal artefacts. He often works on commission, carrying out restorations for superintendencies, museums, art galleries, antique dealers and private collectors. He represents the fourth generation of a renowned family of craftsmen. In 1908, Edoardo Pestelli started his jewellery business in Florence, becoming a benchmark for the international upper middle class and nobility. The historic legacy of this prestigious family of goldsmiths is carried on by Tommaso Pestelli with his wife Eva, his work-and-life partner, and now with their talented son Paul. Fine jewellery and collector’s art objects, successfully combining creativity and technical expertise take shape in his hands—unique pieces handcrafted down to the smallest detail with exquisite mastery and great creative flair. The Pestelli laboratory evokes the atmosphere of a Renaissance workshop, a true cabinet of curiosities filled with treasures crafted with unmatched skill.