Rodolfo Dordoni: ‘design like me’

That strategic role of a figure external to companies in the sector who, through a synergistic exchange between designer and entrepreneur, has been able, from Gio Ponti onwards, to mark the road to success for Italian design in the world.

Rodolfo has always had a close friendship since the beginning of his professional adventure with Giulio Cappellini and also Gilda Bojardi from which the < strong>collaboration with INTERNI which has always followed and documented the projects both in terms of design, architecture and interiors.

In 2014, on the occasion of the birthday dinner for the magazine's 60th anniversary, Rodolfo Dordoni oversaw the preparation of one of the six large tables dedicated to the decade 2004-2014, with various companies with which he collaborated.

It was with Cappellini, a classmate and friend from his studies, that Rodolfo Dordoni began the adventure of art director working alongside Giulio himself from 1979 to a decade.

Memorable was the presentation of the 'Mondo collection born in 1987 in collaboration with Paola Navone as art director and with Giulio Cappellini. If there have been many opportunities for collaboration with the main Italian design companies - from Foscarini to Flos, from Flou to Artemide, from Moroso to Kartell, from Driade to Molteni&C, from Poltrona Frau to Cassina, from Emu to Olivari, from Roda at Fontana Arte, just to name a few - it is above all with Minotti (twenty-five years of creative partnership celebrated in 2022), that Dordoni develops and builds over the years what Roberto and Renato Minotti have described it as "a winning formula [that has been able to] give life to one of the most brilliant eras in the history of our brand".

A formula that Dordoni refines with great skill over the years of research and work in a controlled balance between creative passion and rationality, to achieve the definition of a light and precise, gentle and subtle design sign, of which last but not least, the happy collaboration with Adam Tihany for the large cruise ship Costa Smeralda of Costa Crociera of the Carnival group .

A gesture, that of Rodolfo, not without a rigor that is never expressed aloud and keeps away from fashions, to define furnishings and objects destined to last over time, protagonists such as emerging presences in the domestic space, as well as in the workplace.