Miki Astori

Miki Astori was born in Milan, Italy in 1965. After completing his studies as an architect in 1991, he started working with Antonia Astori as an interior designer. Afterwards he worked for the star designer Philippe Starck in Paris.

Miki Astori opened his own design studio in Milan in 1995. He produces one-off designs, product collections and presentation concepts for Driade. A creative all-rounder, he mainly works as a designer, but is also active in interior design and architecture. Astori is Image-Consultant and designer for Driade and for Japanese and Dutch companies. He designed the "Lean on" mirror for the 2008 Schönbuch product program.

In 1997 Miki Astori spent a long period travelling to South Asia in search of new suppliers which could provide the best manufacturing techniques for his designs. Amongst others he visited Indonesia, Taiwan, Thailand and developed a new family of products, balancing ancient traditions and oriental suggestions with typically western industrials methods and high standards of quality. Among raw materials, Astori prefers natural fibres like rattan, wood and iron which he usually combines and uses together, to obtain simple and defined structures.