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Mandalaki Studio
Mandalaki is a collaborative practice of designers, from the Greek word μανταλάκι=laundry clip, synonymous of balance and simplicity, reliability and sustenance. This is the name of the collaborative practice, founded in 2010 by Enrico De Lotto, Giorgos (koli) Kolliopoulos and Giovanni Senin, Mandalaki creates objects, installations and events thanks to the cooperation among our team of designers, clients and European partners. Combining functional, technical and aesthetical research, every project is the result of a constant dialogue between our different voices and skills and it is aimed at reaching both essentiality and balance.

Enrico De Lotto was born in Dolo (Venice) in 1986. He attended the Politecnico di Milano. There he met Giovanni Senin, with whom he started to carry out a number of university projects. In 2008 he pursued his undergraduate degree in Industrial Design. After one year spent in Great Britain, he attended the master in Product Design at the Scuola Politecnica di Milano. In 2009 he founded the collective named SlackLine Lab with Giovanni Senin, Michele Mescalchin and Paolo Scortegagna. Together they have experimented new ways of interaction among light, colour and audio frequency both designing and creating installations and mountings for art galleries, museums and music events. In 2010 Enrico improved his knowledge in the Studio Santachiara dealing mainly with furniture. In 2011 he was employed in the design studio of Marco Ferreri, whose work deals with decor, architecture and product. Here Enrico carried out many product design and decor projects for companies and galleries such as Morelato, Lamborghini, Zerodisegno, Gallerie Nilufar. Currently he is collaborating with NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano: he has coordinated the workshop named MiAmaForeste and now he is working as assistant professor of the architect Milco Carboni (Sottsass Associati) for the degree course in Interior Design. During the same year he has founded the collaborative practice named Mandalaki together with Georgios Kolliopoulos and Giovanni Senin.

Georgios Kolliopoulos (koli.) was born in Rhodes (Greece) in 1984. He lived in Rhodes until he was eighteen. In 2002, Georgios moved to Patras to study at the T.E.I., that is to say The Technological Educational Institute of Patras. There, he attended the School of Management and Economy in the Accounting Department. In 2007, after his graduation, Georgios moved to Athens to study Interior Design Architecture at the Design Institute IEK Domi, where he took also part in a workshop in Retail Design. While attending university, Georgios collaborated as freelance with design and architecture practices. In an interior designer capacity, Georgios planned both the Esthetics Institute Zin Zen S.p.A in Athens and the Autotech Company stand located in the Exhibition of Electronics and Technology celebrated in Athens. In an assistant capacity, he designed the interiors of a private house located in Melbourne (Australia), in collaboration with Stavros Charitos. During the same period, Georgios taught privately how to use 3D software and he collaborated in the creation of 3D models developed for private clients. In 2009 he moved to Milan, where he attended the Master in Industrial Design at the Scuola Politecnica di Design. There, Georgios met Enrico De Lotto, with whom he started to carry out a number of projects obtaining great success. At the same time, Georgios took part in the so-called Clouds project, which was carried out with the Slack Line Lab collective. In that occasion, he met Giovanni Senin. Since 2010, Georgios has worked for a number of practices in Milan, such as Lorenz Kaz, where he designed chair seats for companies such as Rossin, Bedont, Cole. In 2011 he designed and he created the bench called Curiocity Explains for the municipality of Rhodes in collaboration with Evangellos Rizopoulos. In May 2011 he took part in the Mikser Festival in Belgrade (Serbia) with Enrico De Lotto and Cristian Loddo. There they exhibited the Mandalaki table. In 2011 Georgios Kolliopoulos established the collaborative practice named Mandalaki together with Enrico De Lotto and Giovanni Senin.

Giovanni Senin was born in Milan in 1986. After his classical studies, he applied to Industrial Design at the Politecnico di Milano. There he met Enrico De Lotto and started to collaborate with him. He graduated in 2008 and then he spent one year in London. Since 2009 he has worked for Unifor, a company located in Turate (CO). While at the beginning he had the task of quantity surveyor, with time he started to design and produce partition systems in collaboration with famous architecture studios and builders. Since 2010 he has been involved in the construction of K&L offices in Paris. For this project, he collaborated with the LSM studio. During the same year he took part in the production of the partition systems for the offices of Louis Vuitton in rue St. Honoré in Paris. In 2011 he was site production manger for both the built of Louis Vuitton's offices in rue Cambon in Paris and the project concerning the French office of the Industrie Cartarie Tronchetti in Montargis. Currently, he is following the project concerning the construction of the Qatar Foundation Headquarter of the OMA studio. In 2009 he founded the collective named SlackLine Lab together with Enrico De Lotto, Paolo Scortegagna and Michele Mescalchin. They have created a number of light installations for art galleries, museums and music events using salvaged materials. Since 2010 he has started to collaborate with his colleagues Enrico De Lotto and Georgos Kolliopoulos. They design and create both products and installations. In 2011 Giovanni Senin, Enrico De Lotto and Georgios Kolliopoulos founded the collaborative practice named Mandalaki.

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