Antonio Citterio was born in Meda, Italy in 1950 and graduated in architecture at the Politecnico of Milan. From 1972 he worked in the field of industrial design as a designer and consultant. He works with many manufacturers and in 1987 he won the Golden Compass Award for the ‘Mobil’ system and in 1995 for the ‘Battista’ folding table for Kartell.