He was born in Cortona in 1980. He graduated with honors in Industrial Design from the Milan Polytechnic in 2004, the year in which he began working with Stefano Giovannoni. In 2007 he left Milan to move to Amsterdam where he joined Marcel Wanders' team until, in 2009, he decided to start working on design independently. He returned to Italy and settled permanently in Milan where he worked on the design of products ranging from furniture to consumer electronics for Italian and international clients, combining his design activities with teaching at Istituto Marangoni.