Cristina Celestino

Cristina Celestino completed an architecture degree in Venice and worked with numerous architectural firms, before beginning to focus on interior architecture and interior design. In 2010, she founded ATTICO in Milan. Since then, she has designed furniture and lamps under her own label. In her designs, she often likes to make references to other disciplines such as art, fashion and design and often combines the old and the new, the traditional and the contemporary. All of her projects are characterized by geometric shapes that result from rigorous observation and the subtle play with traditional forms and the variation of scale. The pieces by Christina Celestino are full of stories and references to the history of good design and to objects that surround her during her everyday life in Milan. For example, the Obei Obei mirror series is inspired by windows of famous Milan buildings, which were designed by great architects such as Gio Ponti, Luigi Caccia Dominiono and BBRP. Glass with different textures, as was frequently used in front doors between the 1920s and 1950s, is combined with coloured mirrors, creating a poetic interplay of colourful reflections and delicate patterns. The dressing table ECSTASY is equally poetic. Celestino wanted to reduce it to its pure shape and size and calls it her “aesthetic alter”, where the user can dedicate themself to body care. She finds it interesting to work with typologies that are now seen as old-fashioned and to take up the challenge of bringing them into a contemporary context. She believes that practical objects particularly lend themselves to being made beautiful in an original way.