Enrico Fratesi
Architect & Co-Founder – GamFratesi
Enrico Fratesi is one half of design duo Gam Fratesi, along with his partner Stine Gam. Both gained experience as architects in Japan and Scandinavia before establishing their own Copenhagen-based design studio.
GamFratesi’s design takes its creative drive from a fusion of tradition and renewal, in an experimental approach to their chosen materials and techniques. They draw on the classic Danish furniture and craft tradition as well as the classic Italian intellectual and conceptual approach. Understanding a tradition and addressing it actively in the workshop makes it possible to expand on it. From this cross-cultural substrate they create furniture that respectfully reflects tradition while also featuring unique embedded stories, symbols and associations, often expressed in a minimalist idiom.
GamFratesi have received significant awards including Elle Decoration International design award (EDIDA) as International Designer of the Year 2020, “AD100” 100 most creative 2023 and 2022, Architectural Digest, Elle Decoration International design award (EDIDA) as International Young Designer of the Year 2013, Finn Juhl Prize 2015, Bruno Mathsson prize 2018, Invited as Guest of Honor 2014 at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2014, Best Designer from Elle Decoration Japan 2017, final selection Compasso D’Oro, IF award and Good Design Award .
GamFratesi collaborates with numerous international companies including Bang & Olufsen, Acqua di Parma , Cappellini, Dedon, De Padova, Gubi, Fritz Hansen, Hermès, Hay, Minotti, Louis Poulsen, Porro, Poltrona Frau, Gebruder Thonet Vienna, Kvadrat, etc.
