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Born in Rimini in 1959, Roberto Semprini studied architecture in Florence. In 1987 he joined the Bolidista movement, which expresses design in a symbolic key and as a synthesis of a concept of electronic speed. He moved to Milan and began working as a free-lance journalist for several design magazines such as Modo, L’Atelier (Paris) and ARDI (Barcelona). In 1989 Edra’s Tatlin sofa was released, one of the products that won the prestigious TOP TEN award in Dusseldorf. In 1994 he was one of the winners of the Young & Design award with the Manta coffee table for Fiam. His products are part of the permanent collection of the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts in Canada and the New Museum of Design in London. In 2000 he moved to Rimini where he opened RM 12 art & design, an art gallery and interior design and architecture studio. Since 2006, the studio has been creating high-impact set designs related to the search for new domestic and public spaces, within the cultural part of trade fair events such as Sia in Rimini, Fuori Salone in Milan and Abitare il Tempo in Verona, Sun in Rimini. In 2007 he was invited by the Seoul Living design Fair (Korea) to exhibit La casa Italo/Coreana. He has collaborated with many design companies such as Fiam, Moroso, Alivar, Rede Guzzini, Edra, Ciacci, R.S.V.P., Arredaesse, Sicis, Slide, Trivellini, Contempo, Ciacci Kreaty, Larms, Spaus, Ad Hoc, M.B.,Gruppo Trend, Frighetto, Dilmos, Adrenalina, Morfeus, Mastella Design, Pedrali, Morelato, Scab, Valdichienti ect. He has held lectures and seminars in various design faculties such as: the Faculty of Architecture in Florence, the Milan Polytechnic, the Higher School of Design at the University of Bologna, the I.E.D. in Milan, the I.A.V. in Orleans and the Elisava School in Barcelona, Milan Polytechnic etc. He is currently a lecturer and Coordinator of the Course of Artistic Design for the Enterprise at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera.