Internationally renowned Italian design firm, Pininfarina is pleased to announce the latest addition to its Miami team, Stefano Luppi. Bringing nearly a decade of experience in industrial design to Pininfarina of America, Luppi will oversee concept development and design delivery and bolster the Miami design studio’s technical engineering and product fabrication offering –– with a primary concentration on the firm’s nautical sector. Relocating from the company’s Torino headquarters, Luppi will work closely alongside Paolo Trevisan, Head of Architecture and Design, and the industrial design team to continue solidifying the US studio’s aesthetic vision while expanding the team’s capabilities suite to better serve the North American market.
A long-time boating enthusiast, Luppi studied Industrial Design at The Polytechnic University of Milan and the Naval and Nautical Design program in La Spezia, Italy. His passion led him to an Italian yacht shipyard company where he was engaged in all aspects of the design process from first sketch to physical delivery –– a holistic process that continues to energize and inspire him to this day. In 2017, Luppi joined Pininfarina’s world-class team of multidisciplinary designers, where he further honed his creative perspective through the framework of Pininfarina’s values of ‘Elegance, Purity, and Innovation’.
The collaborative nature of the firm’s structure, which champions fresh approaches and innovative ideas through cross-vertical integration, propelled the evolution of Luppi’s work and drove him to pursue new opportunities to expand the awareness and influence of Italian design in the North American market. Luppi’s addition to the team solidifies Pininfarina’s role as a premium design-build firm within the nautical sector with a U.S. office to best serve its clientele from.
Global icon of Italian style, Pininfarina is recognized for its unparalleled ability to create timeless beauty through its values of elegance, purity, and innovation. Listed on the Borsa Italiana Stock Exchange since 1986, Pininfarina has offices in Italy, Germany, China and the United States, with a prestigious design portfolio that includes transportation, industrial design, architecture, interiors, nautical, automotive, and user-experience design. Each of Pininfarina’s projects –– which span multidisciplinary collaborations with luxury goods companies such as Ferrari, Maserati, Alfa Romeo, Princess and Rossinavi to multi-family residential work with Cyrela and Excem Real Estate and architectural projects such as the Istanbul Airport Control Tower and the Juventus Stadium –– is rooted in the goal of humanizing innovation and technology, creating designs that are both aesthetically powerful and boundary-pushing. This human-centered ethos reflects the core Pininfarina values with an approach to design that has been refined over the last 90 years and marries the best of each vertical to produce a wholly unique result every time. The firm’s work has been recognized on an international scale by programs such as the International Architecture Awards, the Red Dot Design Award, the iF Design Award, and 5th in a ranking of the Top 100 Architecture and Design Companies operating in Italy.
