"Campeggi is a happy island especially for new generations of designers" says Denis Santachiara, who has signed a series of poufs for the Como-based company in line with the playful and functional aspirations of the brand. "For the younger ones, Claudio made courage and inventiveness available, with his typical love of the collector that pushed him almost to put on a gallery of different sensitivities, yet united by a unique approach and who knew how to look at the market".
Emanuele Magini tells us that he started collaborating with Campeggi when he was a young talent and within a few years he signed a series of brilliant pieces. “If you offered him something he liked, he started to produce it or at least prototype it. Immediately. Maybe this was the thing I liked most about him: in a world where designers learn to make halls from companies and to sell themselves for what they are not, with him things were simple, direct, authentic: a bit like the products that left his company. Claudio had the irony and inventiveness of the pieces he produced. His was a composed, subtle, elegant irony. I remember when we produced the first product together, Sosia. He had seen a project of mine at the Triennale, he called me into the company. I offered him this pair of armchairs joined by a sort of large cloak, which allowed different arrangements and an innovative and nonconformist free use. He immediately said to me: this is beautiful! He began to make prototypes: the problem was to make the cloak to be modeled. After several tests, when I now thought that we would do nothing, he called me on the phone and told me to go to the company. He welcomed me with a smile, he had made it! For Claudio, design was a territory to explore, something that could still give surprise and freedom, play and irony. I will miss our projects, our chatter about design and life. Very".
Cover photo by Efrem Raimondi.