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Alberto Zanone: passion for design
Just over forty years old, Alberto Zanone is considered an innovator in high quality knitwear, on the strength of over twenty years of experience combined with a great desire to invest in design. It is first and foremost a way of thinking rather than a business approach, leading to the creation of not only Zanone – set up in 1986 – but also Opos - with the famous competition for young designers, Under 35 and exhibitions on different themes which have been taking place since 1991 – and Fibre Tibet – a knitwear collection in cashmere and yak wool which was born out of a non profit making scheme by the Bridge Fund. From textiles to product design, always in the name of high quality design, “of a certain desired marginality” – as Alberto Zanone takes pleasure in defining it – “from following a personal path without submitting to the particular conditioning brought by the logic of the market” Utopia? For many yes. But in the case of Zanone it is a utopia which also works from a commercial point of view.
Divatrona armchair by Paola Bonfante and Filippo Fantini, designed in ’92
Tibetan nomads
Tibetan yak
Dress lamp, designed by Francesco Argenti, 1999
Detail of the High Quality Cotton thread, exhibited at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan
Second floor of Zanone and Opos offices, located in an industrial space on the outskirts of Milan
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