Giuseppe Amato was born in Palermo in 1970. Graduated in molecular biology at the University of Pavia he rather prefered to open a studio/workshop in Milan with a machinery saved from an old carpentry shop. Since then he has been conceived interiors, including furnishings for the Brioni flagship store in Milano, as well as large-size libraries where to store collector’s volumes, antiquities and treasure books. During the last 15 years his furnitures has been commissioned for the country house of Enrico Job in Brescia, the 16th-century Palazzo Ducrot in Rome, Lina Wertmüller’s place in Rome and the atelier of Sori Yanagi in Tokyo. In 2004 Umberto Angeloni asked for a rack to be placed in the Brioni boutiques and the Suite at Four Seasons Hotel in via Gesù. After this he conceived a project for a wooden mansion to be built on the island of Brioni in Croatia. The result is the project Sixty Tons, displayed, on a scale of 1:10, at the studio on Largo Richini. Every projects pay attention to sustainability and play on contrast featuring wood, steel and iron. Most of the pieces among which canoes, mailboxes, kidstuff, lighting, seaters, tables, bookcases, coat racks,storage and kitchen systems, have been designed always as a site-specific installation or in a limited editions in private residencies. He had shows in Milan Furniture Fair, ICFF in New York ADC, Isetan Department Store in Tokyo, Parallel Event at 11th Istanbul Biennial and Detour Moleskine at the Museum Santral Istanbul and the Moma Design Store in Tokyo. The new architectural series "Unexpected homes", dwellings conceived as an installation of Public Art, start with the prototype Nautoscopio (www.nautoscopio.tv), just built in Palermo, after the show in model scale 1:5 at the Green Energy Design Exhibition curated by Interni Magazine.
