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RISD '95 [Interior Architecture]

Andrea Valentini’s has an emerging signature style making sculptural textiles into functional objects. From bags to place mats she is gaining status in both worlds of interior design and fashion. “A graduate of RISD from Interior Architecture, her debut was at the ICFF in New York with polyurethane furniture in 2001 when her award winning Coosh Egg Chair was chosen by Interior Design Magazine’s Future Furniture Competition. Ever since, she has been recognized worldwide in galleries and museums in the US, Europe and Far East exhibiting with Yoriko Ebihara in Gifu, Japan and Ellen Lupton with Vitra for Second Skin in Essen Germany. In 2003 her talent was recognized when she was one of only 80 American Designers chosen by the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial, “Inside Design Now” representing the quality, range and vitality of current U.S design practice today and she received a nomination for best product design.

She has been featured in the New York Times and several design publications worldwide and her materials are displayed in material libraries abroad. Her textiles have been sited in the book Transmaterial 2 edited by Blaine Brownell in 2008. 

She currently designs and shows from her gallery in Providence Rhode Island at Conley’s Wharf and art directs the Gail Cahalan Gallery “Launch”. A gallery devoted to the work of RISD undergrads and graduate students intended to lift them off campus to show in a public venue.

A portion of proceeds will be forwarded toward a seed scholarship fund called “RISH” Come True,  for high school students in Rhode Island accepted into RISD.

Andrea Valentini is a State appointed official serving on the board of the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts, RISCA.