Products: Cockatoo, Folla, Folla Pattern, Dino, Picchio, Scribbles, Scribbles Pattern, Armor, Plum

Elena Salmistraro

A product designer and artist, she lives and works in Milan. She graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 2008, and in September 2009, she co-founded Alko_studio with architect Angelo Stoli, a studio focused on architecture and design, where she continues to work today.

Her interests range from fashion design to product design, and her approach is particularly attentive to the world of eco-sustainability. For her creations, she prefers the use of natural materials such as paper, wood, Jacroki, ceramics, glass, and fabrics. In 2010, she registered her fashion and design brand, Alla’s, and in the same year, she participated in the exhibition “L’anima sensibile delle cose” at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.

She works as a product designer and artist/illustrator for various companies in the sector, including Seletti, Bosa, Yoox, Okinawa, Massimo Lunardon, 13Ricrea, Rivaviva, Alla’s, and others. She was selected for “The New Italian Design,” an itinerant exhibition organized by La Triennale Design Museum of Milan, curated by Silvana Annicchiarico and Andrea Branzi, with stops in San Francisco, Santiago de Chile, and Cape Town.

Her objects have also been exhibited in the “The New Aesthetic Design” exhibition at the 2013 Shanghai Biennale, a survey on contemporary Italian design of the new millennium, curated by Silvana Annicchiarico for La Triennale Design Museum. In 2013, she designed the chair “Ad Lucem – verso la luce” for the initiative “Le tredici sedie mai dipinte nell’Ultima cena di Leonardo,” curated by Ghigos Ideas, alongside 12 other designers representing a segment of the new Italian generation. The chairs were presented at the MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art) in Lissone.

In 2014, she was part of the PADIGLIONEITALIA design collective, participating in the group exhibition of objects/projects inspired by the theme “Disfunzione Mediterranea,” curated by Alberto Zanchetta. She has participated in the most important national and international trade fairs in the sector, including Macef (Homi-Milan), Step 09 (Milan), Maison&Objet-Paris, Salone Internazionale del Mobile (Cosmit-Milan), and the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair (Stockholm, Sweden).

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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

FOLLA PATTERN

Charm and fantasy: an unconventional fairytale in which the illustration turns into colour and then a story. A pop-surrealist vision of chaos to become a generator of positive energy, a chaotic and disordered representation of the society around us: a symbol of unity and diversity.
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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

DINO

The Allosaurus, a Jurassic period dinosaur is a reptile that fascinates everyone: children, adults, scientists and amateurs - with its long tail and sharp teeth, it turns into a fun image that is cleverly mirrored to create a highly contemporary pattern with vintage nuances
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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

PICCHIO

The colourful woodpecker with its blade-shaped beak allows it to hammer the trees in search for food or to build its nest. The pattern catches that exact hammering motion, the action is rotated and repeated over and over to create a contemporary pattern with a subtle vintage trace.
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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

SCRIBBLES

A collection of graphic signs and imaginary characters with a strong visual impact, a personal and unique reinterpretation of the early American graffiti (Harring, Basquiat). It is a transposition in a modern key of prehistoric art and cave paintings as a fun game, but with a strong symbolic content.
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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

FOLLA

Charm and fantasy: an unconventional fairytale in which the illustration turns into colour and then a story. A pop-surrealist vision of chaos to become a generator of positive energy, a chaotic and disordered representation of the society around us: a symbol of unity and diversity.
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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

SCRIBBLES PATTERN

A collection of graphic signs and imaginary characters with a strong visual impact, a personal and unique reinterpretation of the early American graffiti (Harring, Basquiat). It is a transposition in a modern key of prehistoric art and cave paintings as a fun game, but with a strong symbolic content.
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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

ARMOR

A protective armour, a repetition of elements that gently fills in the space. These uniquely familiar, deliberately imperfect lines, create a game of shadows that creates a surprising three-dimensional effect.
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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

PLUM

Used by the Native Americans to ward off negative energies, feathers symbolize lightness and the union between man and the gods: they make us fly to a magical world full of spirituality. The black and white contrast does not oversaturate, but gently accompanies us on our imaginary flight.
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Designer: Elena Salmistraro

COCKATOO

The fascinating Australian birds, unique for their beautiful plumage and showy erectile crest, are the wonderful subjectof this composition that is enhanced with the use of soft but contrasting colours. The strong reference to pop art givesthis wallpaper the impression of being a true work of art.
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