Giampiero Romanò

Giampiero Romanò, born in 1973, is an art-designer from Milan. His background is not made by design school or arts academies, but rather among nails, hammers and paints in his workshop located in the beating heart of Porta Venezia quarter, where he dedicated himself for more than 20 years to the restoration of antiques and design pieces. Thanks to such experience and extraordinary hand skills, he started a fruitful collaboration with Maurizio Cattelan and Pier Paolo Ferrari’s Toiletpaper Magazine, adding his original and recognizable touch in the display of their famous graphics by producing art pieces exposed in worldwide galleries. His irony and visionary, along with technical knowledge of the materials and manufacturing skills of a yesteryear master craftsman, pushed him to create one-of-a-kind pieces, among which, stand out spectacular wall mirrors, gathered in the collection ANTICHITA’ 3000, which name well represent the concept of his production, i.e. looking at old things with new eyes by melting the heritage of antiques and the art of the past with a gaze to the future, to the newness, to the never seen before, in order to upset the common esthetical canons and replace them with something new and original.