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INTERIOR
DESIGN

Luxury artisanal creations merging design collaboration between Andrea
Gullo, Director of Officine
and fashion A ullo, and Edgardo Osorio,
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founder and Creative Director of
the Italian luxury footwear brand
A “made in Florence” collaboration between Officine Gullo Aquazzura, unites the world of fashion
and Aquazzura with that of design. The meeting led to
the creation of a tailor-made kitchen for
one of the Osorio residences as well as a
capsule collection that will be presented
at the next Fuorisalone 2021: a limited-
edition series of Officine Gullo hand-
painted cooking ranges decorated with
the patterns of the new Aquazzura Casa
tableware collection.
The first chapter of this collaboration
is a tailor-made kitchen project that
represents the perfect encounter
between the two spheres. The location
is exceptional: Palazzo Corner Spinelli,
on the Grand Canal in the San Marco
district of Venice. The residence dates
back to the end of the fifteenth century
and is characterised by architecture
that is representative of the transition
from the Gothic to the Renaissance in
Venetian art, evidenced by the façade on
the canal.
An Officine Gullo kitchen was
installed on the first floor in Osorio’s
apartment, tailor-made by the designer,
his residence and his brand. Upon
discovering Officine Gullo, one of the
aspects that most struck Edgardo Osorio

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