Creative duo

Manuel Barbieri and Marco Magalini began collaborating in 2011, creating four-handed creative art direction projects in the fields of furniture, fashion & interior design. In addition to the projects realised for brands, they experiment with self-produced research projects, such as a scouting magazine, curating collectives at Milan Design Week and realising self-produced furniture. During these years they experience a mental and aesthetic synergy that sinks into a panoramic and humanistic vision of the project, with a design-oriented and artisanal soul, summed up in the mantra “Always for love”.
Manuel Barbieri and Marco Magalini began collaborating in 2011, creating four-handed creative art direction projects in the fields of furniture, fashion & interior design. In addition to the projects realised for brands, they experiment with self-produced research projects, such as a scouting magazine, curating collectives at Milan Design Week and realising self-produced furniture. During these years they experience a mental and aesthetic synergy that sinks into a panoramic and humanistic vision of the project, with a design-oriented and artisanal soul, summed up in the mantra “Always for love”.
In 2015, they founded MM Company: a creative consultancy agency that allows them to transform creative ideas into concrete projects, with the strategic and operational input of a team of competent and passionate people. This approach, consolidated within the headquarters at 12 Via Quadrio in Milan, has enabled them to develop a specific know-how and method rooted in the productive and cultural culture of 'made in Italy', which allows them to relate with their interlocutors on a privileged level: sinking into cultural manufacturing, then ranging into marketing and communication, through a contemporary lens that connects physical, digital, human, ethical and sustainable dimensions.
In 2015, they founded MM Company: a creative consultancy agency that allows them to transform creative ideas into concrete projects, with the strategic and operational input of a team of competent and passionate people. This approach, consolidated within the headquarters at 12 Via Quadrio in Milan, has enabled them to develop a specific know-how and method rooted in the productive and cultural culture of 'made in Italy', which allows them to relate with their interlocutors on a privileged level: sinking into cultural manufacturing, then ranging into marketing and communication, through a contemporary lens that connects physical, digital, human, ethical and sustainable dimensions.
In 2021, they founded Caleido: the magazine, conceived as a Diary, that investigates the vision of extraordinary people, with the aim of exploring contemporary society and actively promoting the culture of creativity and design. Through conversations (interviews) with creative people in the fields of architecture, art, fashion, design, cuisine and music; convivial symposiums, meetings, exhibitions, events, dinners and special projects to foster discussion around the culture of design and creativity. Some of which in the spaces of Casa CaIeido.
In 2021, they founded Caleido: the magazine, conceived as a Diary, that investigates the vision of extraordinary people, with the aim of exploring contemporary society and actively promoting the culture of creativity and design. Through conversations (interviews) with creative people in the fields of architecture, art, fashion, design, cuisine and music; convivial symposiums, meetings, exhibitions, events, dinners and special projects to foster discussion around the culture of design and creativity. Some of which in the spaces of Casa CaIeido.
Read the interview on AD Architectural Digest Italy to find out more about their vision.
Read the interview on AD Architectural Digest Italy to find out more about their vision.