Atelier C is an architecture office founded in Milan in 2023 by Valeria Cesti and Lorenzo Cellini. It navigates the discipline of architecture, dealing with interior design, private renovation, exhibition design, and research, dimensions that contaminate, influence, and mutually enriches each other. Atelier C makes craftsmanship, materials, and sustainability the starting point of each project. It seeks to establish a collective design process rather than an authorial one, organically bringing together professionals, artisans, and design culture.
Valeria Cesti and Lorenzo Cellini began working together during theiruniversity career, following which they independently published: ATLAS OF 23 Cemeteries. 10 Crematoria. 5 Flower Kiosks. They later collaborated with interior design studios in Milan, where they worked on private renovation projects, beginning to acquire construction site know-how and exhibition projects for the Milan Design Week in 2019 and 2022.
In 2022, they began their collaboration with the collective FosburyArchitecture, with whom they designed two exhibitions: Characters atMagazin Gallery, Vienna, and Ducato Prize 23 at Volumnia Gallery, Piacenza. Once again, with the FA collective, they will be part of the curatorial team for the Italian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia: Spaziale. Everyone belongs to everyone else. On this occasion, they fill the roles of curatorial assistants, editors assistant for the official catalog, and designing and producing the exhibition layout.
After the end of Biennale, they founded Atelier C, currently following private renovation projects and exhibition design for art galleries.