Alberto Caiola was born in Pordenone on December 1981. During his studies in industrial design at the Polytechnic of Milan, in 2005 he won the “AD Young Designers Awards” and soon started cooperating with Cibic&Partners. The year after he partecipated in some workshops at Fabrica (Benetton research and development communication centre). Fascinated by conceptual art and excited for change, he moved to the Netherlands to attend a master at the Design Academy Eindhoven.
After a period spent at Antonio Iraci &Partners involved designing shops and house's interiors, he worked at Cibicworkshop design research center in Vicenza.
Here he worked for design companies and institutions such as Foscarini, Artemide, Serralunga, Antonangeli, Leucos, La Rinascente, PaolaC., Emu, La Triennale di Milano, Kunsthaus Graz, Gran Teatro La Fenice, Mondo S.p.a., VeronaFiere, Cazzaro, The city of Cartagena (Colombia), Quarella, Environmental furniture.
Now he is working as a freelance.
He believes in the truth of objects and in the value of experiencing things. Objects come to life as time go by, and the minute we become attached to them we can’t do anymore without them. The unconscious connection between emotion and familiarity gives rise to his interpretation of design.