Luxurious Details

Simplicity carried to an extreme becomes elegance. But the key to perfecting that quotient still puzzles many; we speak with a dream design maker to unravel his process.

- Chitman Kanwar Ahuja

An Italian architect and interior designer, Maurizio Manzoni, was born to a designer and artist father who passed on his passion of design to him at an early age. Free from digital distractions and a yearning for perfection guided him through, to put his teachings into practice and have an identity of his own. Well, all geniuses have a childhood that professes their lives ahead, so does Maurizio. As a child he suffered from dyslexia due to which he was never able to focus on the text but, the images called out to him. He spent afternoons designing cars, drawing horses, human faces, comics and much more. It was a real hobby that even deciphered his future goal. We speak to him as he walks us through his inspiration, the fine line between art and aesthetics and his luxurious design concepts. Edited excerpts...

Chapter 1: Beginning

After graduating in architecture in Florence, Maurizio specialised in industrial design, collaborating with professionals in the world of design. He embarked upon a journey where he could freely express himself and transform internal emotions and external solicitations, with all the cultural baggage that had been built up in him till then. Into ideas that were not ends in themselves, but always projected towards the concrete realisation of serious and plausible products.

Chapter 2: Artistic dexterity