国籍：意大利

Egoluce (Milan), which produces his lighting device, the appliqué “Floo”, presented at the Euroluce 2001, Milano.

Alterego (Palermo), marketing and company image studio, realizing set design and designing custom-made objects for the studio’s clients.

L’Istituto del Papiro (Siracusa), for the design of a papyrus floor, “Pyro”, presented in Milan in 2002.

Italia Lithos (Ragusa), a company working on the processing of natural stones, as designer and consultant for set design.

Antonini Sud (Palermo), for the design and production of a PVC homeware.

Giuseppe Finocchio is also technical consultant for Sicily of Jakob Inox Line, a Swiss company that produces cables and accessories, used both in the design and building field.

Exhibitions

Giuseppe Finocchio attended different national and international exhibitions:
2001 – Salone Satellite, Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milano);
2002 - Salone Satellite , Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milano) - Macef (Milano) - Abitare il Tempo (Verona) - Marmomac (Verona) - Biennale del Design (Saint Etienne) - E’ Condema, a collective exhibition at Conderna showroom (Milano);
2003 Fuori salone, Wivian’s Factory, Salone del Mobile (Milano) - Abitare il Tempo (Verona) - Dubai Show Hotel (Dubai) - Saie 2 (Bologna) – Marmomac (Verona) – collective, Salone Satellite, Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Milano);
2004 Fuori salone at show room Condema (Salone del Mobile, Milano) - Abitare il Tempo (Verona) - Cersaie (Bologna) - Sasmil Satellite (Milano) - Biennale del Design (Saint Etienne);
2005 Italy for India (New Delhi) - Touch it (Belgrado) – personal exhibition at the gallery Emporio di Parma (Napoli);
2006 Diseno Global Città del Messico - Inventario 06 collective exhibition at the gallery Emporio di Parma  (Napoli) - Palermo Design Week a Palermo - More Ethic More Aestetic collective exhibition in Palermo;
2007 Yin_Young Lounge a Rimini - Palermo Design Week (Palermo);

Awards and events

March 2003, second prize for the international design competition “Room is the center of the world” for the chair “Zoe”, Novi Sad (Serbia).
Selected as best designer of the month by the website Aedo-to.com of Virginio Briatore, September 2003
In 2002, he organized a photo exhibition of Medecins sans frontieres, “Genocide in Ruanda”.
In 2006 and 2007, he conceived and organized the international event Palermo Design Week with Associazione Culturale ICOD, International Community of Designers, of which he is founder and president.

I think that design has to support function, that’s why I always try to realize simple and functional designs... designs for the living and not only for the looking!

I often try to use new materials, but sometimes I’m only inspired by the nature and the pleasure of thinking a new shape and maybe more functional shape for an object.

I like working with different materials, I use my experience, my knowledge on materials and their processing as the base. Exploring new fields and applications through the research of new solutions, technologies and innovative materials is a source of design pleasure. All these concepts can also be found in my interior design works.

I believe in my work, I do design enthusiastically and I like what I’m doing, trying to always have a critical ability.