Architect and Designer Maurizio Lai was born in Padua in 1965, he studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Venice and at the Milan Polytechnic, where he graduated. He started his career as set designer for the Italian television and in 1998 he founded LAI STUDIO, a multidisciplinary practice that develops constant synergies between architecture and design, planning for the fashion, commercial and hospitality segments, as well as for the private residential. An original interpreter of contemporary aesthetics, his work is defined by an instinctive approach, finding its roots in the spectacularity of creation. Widely acknowledged for the impressiveness of his production, his style has been defined as one of the most interesting in the Italian contemporary scene.