Franco Perrotti

Trained in the mid-1970s, Franco Perrotti first studied in Pescara and then in Milan, where he attended courses by Attilio Marcolli and Bruno Munari at the Scuola Politecnica di Design and connected with the vibrant heart of international design. He then began his collaboration with the Tecno Project Center (1976-1986), a leading company for work environments and collective spaces. Franco Perrotti managed the Product Design and Interior Design of the company, designing catalog products, layouts for renovations and showroom setups, and developing concepts for trade fair and industry event scenographies. In 1986, he began his career as an independent designer and founded the Perrotti Dissociati Design studio, which is still active and engaged in Industrial and Interior Design projects, as well as architectural interventions. Thus began his collaborations with numerous prestigious companies. From 1989 to 1993, he collaborated as Art Director with Faram spa, a leading company in office solution design, where he managed product design, communication, and setups. He created a new line of home furnishings and the new graphic design of the catalog for Airon Metalarredo, a manufacturer of home and office furniture accessories. During the same period, he designed auditorium chairs and armchairs for the Poltrona Frau brand and tables and seating for collective spaces for the Moroso brand. In 1997, he left Milan to return to Abruzzo, where, together with Tanino Liberatore and young architect Mario Mariano, he founded Rude Bravo Design Workshop, a laboratory of ideas, projects, products, and artifacts. Rude Bravo debuted the following year during the Fuori Salone in Milan with the exhibition “The 7 Deadly Sins” set up at Spazio Consolo. Together with Tanino Liberatore, Franco Perrotti created products of particular resonance such as “L’Homme au turban rouge et son cousin” in 2007, a two-door lamp inspired by Jan van Eyck’s painting. As a publisher and designer, Franco Perrotti curated products designed for limited editions and often created unique pieces, and with Rude Bravo, he characterized the Italian design scene for a decade with innovative and unconventional proposals. With the studio “Officine d’Essai”, a workshop of architecture, art, and Interior design founded in Pescara in 2012, he continues and expands the Rude Bravo Design Workshop project, always in the spirit of curiosity, experimentation, and consolidation of the design language with significant study projects and Interior design realizations for private residences, showrooms, in Italy and abroad. Among the significant institutional collaborations are those with the Archaeological Museum “La Civitella” in Chieti, the MAR Museum in Positano – Salerno, the FRIMACT Museum in Frigento – Avellino for museum setups, and those with the Scuola Politecnica di Design in Milan, the Faculty of Architecture in Pescara, and ISIA Pescara Design, where he has taught classes and seminars.