... a subtle reinvention of industrial and handcraft techniques..
Born in Italy in 1978, Rampelotto graduated in Industrial Design at the Vienna University of Applied Arts under the supervision of Borek Sipek and Ross Lovegrove. After working for Eoos in Vienna, he launched his own studio “Ideas of Patrick Rampelotto” in 2009 and the collective gallery “Spazio Pulpo” in 2016. In 2022 he founded PolyOkay, a company introducing sustainable construction products made out of recycled plastic.
He works mostly with remnants of culture — discarded mass products, prototypes never produced, archived luxury objects, machines without a use, famous quotes or patterns. No matter if working for a design company or for an art institution, Rampelotto uses vestiges of tradition that are taken out of context and abstracted. Through a subtle reinvention of industrial and handcraft techniques, he creates poetic objects that blend archaic and futuristic aesthetics.
Exhibitions (Selection)
• 2025 – Design Stories, Galerie Rhomberg Innsbruck
Sciscioré, Playing as an Alpine Gesture, EditNapoli, La Santissima Neaples
• 2024 – AUT NOW, 100 x Austrian Design for the 21st Century, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
riflessioni / reflexionen, Bolzano Art Week, Bozen
• 2022 – The Fest, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
Originalfunktional #2, Galerie Rhomberg Innsbruck
• 2021–2020 – Parallel, artist statement, Vienna
Loos Design & Redesign, Hofmobiliendepot Vienna
ZEITLO(O)S, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
ADOLF LOOS. Privathäuser, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
• 2019 – Café Panettone, Büro Weltausstellung
DesignLab, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
• 2018 – micro macro, Geba Carpets, Vienna Design Week
Exit, Spazio Pulpo, Vienna
• Further exhibitions from 2007–2017 available on request
Public Collections
• 2025 – Stool Pilot, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
• 2022 – Chandelier Zirkusnummer, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
Masks Tizio, Caio, Sempronio, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
• 2020 – Carpet micro macro, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
• 2014 – Stool Pilot, Museum of Design Zurich
• 2013 – Stool Pilot, Imperial Furniture Collection, Vienna
Daybed Josephine, Museum of Applied Arts Vienna
• 2012–2005 – Additional pieces acquired by museums in Vienna, Prague, and Zurich
..he creates poetic objects that blend archaic and futuristic aesthetics..
Monographs
• brutiful, Ed. Galerie Rauminhalt, Brüder Hollinek & Co. GmbH, Vienna 2015
Design Theory
• Zweckentfremdung – Improper Use as Cultural Practice, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2016
• Serial – Individual, Craft in Design, VDG Weimar, 2014
Books / Exhibition Catalogues
• AUT NOW – 100 x Austrian Design for the 21st Century, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2024
• Chair Anatomy – Design and Construction, Thames & Hudson, 2023
• THE FEST, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022
• Koloman Moser – Universal Artist, Birkhäuser Verlag, 2019
• Wagner, Hoffmann, Loos – Furniture Design of Viennese Modernism, Böhlau Verlag, 2018
• Salone Satellite – 20 Years of New Creativity, Corraini Edizioni, 2017
• Design in Vienna 2000–2010, Metroverlag, 2011
• Ultra Design – The New Generation of Designers, Thames & Hudson, 2009
