Your name: Dean Angelucci
What you do: Owner of Angelucci 20th Century, retailing an eclectic mix of product, focusing on vintage 20th Century design imported from Europe. Also included are contemporary bespoke lounge ranges, outdoor furniture and homewares.
Your latest project: development of a new low table for our range
Who are three people that inspire/excite you:
1) My Wife, designer Lisa Gorman
2) Angelo Mangiarotti, particularly for his Eros marble table series
3) Architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha
What is your favourite…
Car/bike/plane/boat model: Almost all car designs by the Milan-based design house Zagato
Chair model: The Sheriff chair by Sergio Rodriguez
Residential space: Our own home by Nest Architects
Commercial space: The Parco dei Principi Hotel in Sorrento (Italy) by Gio Ponti
Decorative product: ceramics by Dame Lucie Rie
Functional product: KAI Santoku Chefs knife
Handmade good: A classic shirt by Christian Dior
Mass-produced good: The Bialetti percolator
Meal: Tinned Orazzuro Sardines on buttered sourdough toast with lemon juice and parseley. (Hangover-specific)
Restaurant: Impossible to have just one, living in Melbourne !
Drink: Victorian Pinot Noir
Bar: Enoteca in Gertrude st Fitzroy
Item in your studio: a Red pen
Piece of technology: Smart phone
Historical figure: Victorian convict/escapee William Buckley
Fictional character: Ferris Bueller
Vice: red wine
Virtue: My glass is always half full
What does the term ‘Design Hunter™’ mean to you? Pursuing the notion that ones’ reality is enhanced by the functional, beautiful, and sublime.