Best Interior Designers Speaking during M&O Americas
Will you attend Miami for Maison & Objet? Great! During the four days of the fair (May 12-15, 2015), Maison & Objet Americas will present The Interior Design and Lifestyle Summit, which offers 20 conferences spanning approximately 45 minutes each, divided into the five key topic: Keynote Speeches, Trends & Prospective Workshops, Best Of Interior Design, Best Of Retail and Panel Discussions. Among conference speakers we can find some of the most celebrated names in the world of design. Who are they? What will they talk about?
Diego Montero | Architect
South America Best of Interior Design
Tuesday 05.12 — 11:00 – 11:45am
In 1990, Diego Montero was a young architect from Buenos Aires, for whom Punta del Este had always been his vacation destination, where he had begun to develop his scattered construction works since the beginning of 1980’s. Almost all of them were really small, country style and rudimentary, but with an extremely personal and characteristic sense of the place and savoir vivre, that gradually started winning fans and supporters.
Today, years after definitively settling down with his family at Manantiales, it is practically impossible to walk more than two without coming across one of his houses or other constructions. And, even if it is true that the mere quantitative aspect is striking – in average he has built from ten to fifteen houses annually since 1990 – maybe it’s even more interesting the fact that many of his works have been the funding stone and the starting engine of many remarkable developments.

Juan Montoya | Interior Designer
South America Best of Interior Design
Tuesday 05.12 — 11:00 – 11:45am
Juan Montoya is one of the most acclaimed and prolific interior designers in the world today. Juan Montoya was born and spent his early years in Colombia. After studying architecture in Bogotá, he moved to New York where he graduated from Parson School of Design. Following two years of work and study in Paris and Milan, he returned to New York, where he founded the design business he has presided over since. His firm specializes in residential and contract interior design, with projects located throughout the United States and Internationally. He also designs and markets an extensive line of carpets for Stark Carpet. A member of the Interior Design Hall of Fame, a recipient of the honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Parson School of Design, Star of Design Award, and the Legends Award from Pratt Institute, his contribution to the field of interior design are widely recognized

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Fernanda Marques | Architect
South America Best of Interior Design
Tuesday 05.12 — 11:00 – 11:45am
Fernanda Marques was born in Sao Paulo and graduated in architecture from the University of Sao Paulo. Early in her career, she apprenticed with Gian Carlo Gasperini, one of the masters of contemporary architecture in Brazil. In 1990 she opened her own office, FERNANDA MARQUES ARCHITECTS, which acts as a channel for her multidisciplinary work.

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