DESIGNS FROM THE INSIDE OUT

Being a Designer today in America for me, means realizing that limitations are opportunities and innovation is essential to the growth of creativity. It is our niche, as a nation to thrive on developing concepts of weaving, blending and fusing materials within a culture of diversity and technology.

I have a responsibility to communicate and reinterpret in effort to heighten ones awareness about themselves and their physical environment. Realizing the potential of what we have to work with, guides us toward what we need.

Displacing, re-inventing and translating raw materials, recycled materials which are biologically safe  We produce fabrics which are lightweight yet durable, sensual yet practical.

Our goal is not only to design with integrity, passion and quality, made in the USA, of course, but socially to heighten ones awareness of the visual environment and mans continuous opposition with nature.

Designing from the inside out I draw inspiration from materials, particularly those that are hidden or underutilized, confined to their own industrial standards.

Andrea Valentini fuses architecture with fashion by blending and diversifying materials from one industry into another.

The Valentini brand stems from innovative design solutions using unconventional methods and materials to achieve sensuality, practicality and accessibility through every product. From bags to jewelry and furnishings for the contract and home market, the Valentini brand is about sharing and connecting a

moment through texture.

we choose to recycle by reutilizing materials that have been intended for products of one industry and displacing them into products of another.

“To see again is to forget what you already know”

-Valentini

Biography

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.

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