Antonio Pio Saracino

Antonio Pio Saracino was born in Puglia and studied architecture in Rome. In 2011 his work was selected as part of the Italian Pavilion of the World for the 54th Venice Biennale, and in 2013 it was shown at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. The same year he established his own multi-dsciplinary practice in New York, where he has lived and worked ever since.

His furniture is of a piece with his achitectual and sculptural and projects (examples of which can be found in Bryant Park and at the entrance of New York-Presbyterian Hospital). Of ingenious design and meticulous execution, each work is perfectly tailored to its particular space, its function and form united in an elegant aesthetic uniquely (and recognizably) his own. By employing digital technologies, he re-imagines objects with the logic of natural structures, investigating the evolving role of nature in designs—creating pieces that celebrate his heritage and yet signal a rupture between past and future.

Saracino has received two American Architecture Awards from the Chicago Museum of Architecture and has been recognized as one of the Top Ten Italian Architects by New Italian Blood. His work is held in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, LACMA, Los Angeles, the Brooklyn Museum, New York, the Museum of Art and Design, New York, and MAAS, Sydney. He is represented by Maison Gerard in New York.

Submitted by Maison Gerard