Dario Gaudio graduated with honors from the undergraduate Industrial Drawing course at the Architecture School of the Politecnico of Bari in 2009. During the same year, he moved to Milan, and signed up to the postgraduate Product Design course at the Politecnico of Milan and graduated in 2011. From 2010 he collaborates with Giulio Iacchetti’s studio, as a designer and also followed projects for companies such as Alessi, Danese, Foscarini, Moleskine, Viceversa and Falper.

Vittorio Venezia graduated in Architecture from the University of Palermo in 2005. In 2007 he moved to Milan and collaborated with a few internationally renowned designers. Some of his projects have been exhibited at the Triennale of Milan, at the Louvre and at the MAXXI. From 2012 he has been coo-director of the master “Out of the door” at the Abadir Academy in Catania. He lives and works between Palermo and Milan, where he collaborates with many companies, such as Alcantara, Meritalia and, obviously, Falper.

In 2013 their project wins the Cristalplant Design Contest, from which was born the CONTROSTAMPO collection for Falper, which was immediately successful.