Spanish-born, Milan-based architect Patricia Urquiola doesn’t lack for commissions these days, and, unlike the work of many other high-concept architects, her projects tend to get constructed, envelope-pushing though they sometimes are. And when she’s not imagining covetable creations for contemporary furniture houses — including B&B Italia, Driade and Cassina, where she was named art director in 2015 — Urquiola makes headlines by designing some of the world’s most aesthetically ambitious hotels, such as 2016’s Il Sereno on Lake Como in Lombardy, Italy.
Born in Oviedo, in northern Spain, Urquiola grew up in a family that valued creativity. Everyone in the house, she says, talked and cared about design. She fondly remembers her mother going to London in the 1960s and ’70s and coming back home with a Mary Quant this, a David Hicks that. When it came time to go to university, Urquiola decided that her place was architecture school, first at the Polytechnic University of Madrid and then at the Polytechnic University of Milan, where she completed her design thesis — a felt carpet with a panel that connected to a home’s electricity source and telephone line so that you could plug, say, a table lamp and your phone into it — under the direction of legendary Italian industrial designer Achille Castiglioni.
Today, Urquiola has become a go-to when it comes to avant-garde product, hospitality and retail design, working with such blue-chip international furniture, fashion and hotel companies as Alessi, Baccarat, Salvatore Ferragamo, Kvadrat, Mandarin Oriental, Panerai, Rosenthal, W Hotels and Louis Vuitton, among many others. Her residential projects, meanwhile, though few and far between, stretch from such far-flung locations as Punta del Este, Uruguay, and Melbourne, Australia, to closer-to-home Udine, in northeastern Italy, where she designed the two-story, largely open-plan glass-and-cedar home of Patrizia Moroso, creative director of the family-owned design company that bears her last name.
Over the course of a long-term and highly productive collaboration spanning some 20 years, Urquiola has created dozens and dozens of Moroso-branded products. A chair from her 2001 Fjord line of seating, tables and poufs for the company sits in the collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, and Moroso debuted (love me) Tender, her modular sofa system upholstered in jersey, during Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April of 2014.
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Patricia Urquiola Hayama Cabinet For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Lacquer
Patricia Urquiola Hayama Cabinet, Lacquered MDF, Mid-Century Modern
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Lacquer
Patricia Urquiola Hayama Cabinet, Lacquered MDF, Mid-Century Modern
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Lacquer
$10,714 / item
Moroso ROWS Cabinet by Patricia Urquiola
By Moroso, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With linear forms and clear-cut symmetries, the Rows collection by Patricia Urquiola is geometrical and minimalist, expressing a refined artistic concept. Doors, side panels and tabl...
Wood
Glas Italia Robotin Sideboard in Mirrored Glass by Patricia Urquiola - Push-Pull
By Patricia Urquiola, Glas Italia
Located in Varedo, MB
The Robotin sideboard by Glas Italia, designed by Patricia Urquiola, is a bold and reflective storage piece that merges decorative artistry with contemporary design. Part of the Rob...
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Patricia Urquiola Hayama Cabinet, Lacquered MDF, Mid-Century Modern
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Hayama Cabinet For Cassina With her unmistakable design signature, what Patricia Urquiola creates is an invitation to travel, in the form of furniture – through th...
Lacquer
$7,950 / item
Orange Luna Walnut Cabinet by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Geneve, CH
Orange Luna walnut cabinet by Patricia Urquiola Materials: Walnut veneer on MDF Dimensions: 110 x 40 x 175 cm The Luna is a strong and creative piece, in walnut veneer or in orange lacquered medium, with 2 sliding doors. It is a colorful storage cabinet with original shapes Iconic architect, Patricia Urquiola has created a new small lounge armchair...
Walnut
$11,297 / item
Moroso ROWS Small Table by Patricia Urquiola
By Moroso, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With linear forms and clear-cut symmetries, the Rows collection by Patricia Urquiola is geometrical and minimalist, expressing a refined artistic concept. Doors, side panels and tabl...
Wood
$12,485 / item
Moroso ROWS Large Table by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Moroso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With linear forms and clear-cut symmetries, the Rows collection by Patricia Urquiola is geometrical and minimalist, expressing a refined artistic concept. Doors, side panels and tabl...
Wood
$13,129 / item
Moroso ROWS Medium Table by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Moroso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With linear forms and clear-cut symmetries, the Rows collection by Patricia Urquiola is geometrical and minimalist, expressing a refined artistic concept. Doors, side panels and tabl...
Wood
$8,933 / item
Luna Walnut Cabinet by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Geneve, CH
Luna walnut cabinet by Patricia Urquiola Materials: Walnut veneer on MDF Dimensions: 110 x 40 x 175 cm The Luna is a strong and creative piece, in walnut veneer or in orange lacquered medium, with 2 sliding doors. It is a colorful storage cabinet with original shapes Iconic architect, Patricia Urquiola has created a new small Lounge armchair...
Walnut
$12,364 / item
H 74.41 in W 35.44 in D 15.75 in
Glas Italia OBLIQUO vertical shelving by Piero Lissoni
By Piero Lissoni, Glas Italia
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Series of open storage units in 4+6 mm laminated glass, with shiny polished ground edge and heat-sealed at 45°. The external surface has a special mirrored chrome finish, while the...
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Mid-Century Modern Double Cabinet
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Teak grain vintage modern cabinet with adjustable shelves. Double door cabinets, sleek lines, great as an office sideboard. (Please confirm item lo...
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$1,023
H 33.86 in W 35.04 in D 19.3 in
1960s Mid-Century Modern Lacquered Wood Cabinet, Honey & Walnut
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Beautiful mid-century modern cabinet dating from the 1960s, featuring an exceptional dramatic wood grain veneer with rich honey and walnut tones. The striking mirrored grain pattern ...
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White Lacquer, Walnut and Brass Mid-Century Cabinet
By Davis Cabinet Company
Located in Miami, FL
A solid walnut off-white lacquered Mid-Century Modern small credenza or oversized night stand made by the Davis Cabinet Co. of Nashville, Tennessee. The light ivory or cameo white commode...
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Sideboard in Carved Oak with Turned Bronze Pulls, France, 1950s
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By Frank Lloyd Wright
Located in Dallas, TX
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Mahogany
Mid-Century Modern Display Cabinet
By Young Manufacturing Company
Located in Brooklyn, NY
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Glass, Walnut
$4,839 / item
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TRANSFIX Storage Unit in Glass, by Marc Krusin, Kensaku Oshiro from Glas Italia
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