Claudio Papa

Director of the Design Department and Coordinator of the Wunderwood project at the Academy of Fine Arts G.B. Tiepolo in Udine

Born in Catania on 5 May 1964. Industrial Designer at the I.S.I.A. in Rome in 1990, in order to write his thesis, he collaborated with the Piaggio company where he later worked for two years as a designer. At the same time as his studies, he began working with various Italian companies, developing his professionalism in different sectors. The most significant are those of interior design (furniture, sofas, armchairs, lamps, kitchen accessories) and bathroom furniture (furniture, accessories, sanitary ware, methacrylate bathtubs and hydromassage showers, taps and fittings). He has directed courses and lectured on design in Italy and abroad. Since May 2016, he has been the Director of the Design and Applied Arts Department at the G.B. Tiepolo Academy of Fine Arts in Udine (ABA UD). Since 2018, Papa has been called by Albatros, a company in the wellness sector, as Art Director.