Food Design

Francesca Sarti is an architect with a passion for conviviality. After working in the art world, she founded the food design collective Arabeschi di Latte in 2001. Since college, she has been exploring the food world, its fascination and its power to create situations and relationships, down to its darkest side with the Underkitchen platform. Together with Arabeschi di Latte, she has created many food concepts and pop-up cafés around the world, combining food and design and contributing to shape the actual meaning of this binomial. Besides the activity of food and creative consultancy, Francesca Sarti gives lectures and runs workshop in many universities, recently the Pasta Power workshop at ECAL, in Lausanne.

Marco graduated with a BA (Hons) in Business Studies at University of Hertfordshire in 2005 and has been living in Milan since. Over the years he has worked with Zurich based art publisher Nieves Books and freelanced for several magazines such as New York Times T Magazine, AD Germany, 032c. Since October 2008 he is a partner in the Milan based creative agency, SM Associati, for which he covers the role of Creative Director in several projects, including the redesign in 2010 of Casamica, Corriere della Sera's design magazine, or La Cucina Italiana, Italy's most important food magazine, relaunched in 2011. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Apartamento magazine, a biannual everyday life interiors magazine, and since early 2011 Creative Director of Italian furniture company De Padova.

Together founded Gnam Box: a social foodie project that speaks through food. The focus is to meet inspirational people in our kitchen that has become the symbol of conviviality, recipes and meetings. We like to observe people moving in the kitchen, which ingredients they use and their habits. The first thing we wanna know about you is: what's your favorite dish? Food makes all equal, so is easier to speaks about ourselves and feeling like at home. In food we trust and our recipes speak about us!

Together founded Gnam Box: a social foodie project that speaks through food. The focus is to meet inspirational people in our kitchen that has become the symbol of conviviality, recipes and meetings. We like to observe people moving in the kitchen, which ingredients they use and their habits. The first thing we wanna know about you is: what's your favorite dish? Food makes all equal, so is easier to speaks about ourselves and feeling like at home. In food we trust and our recipes speak about us!

Evangelia Koutsovoulou is the founder of Daphnis and Chloe, a young company of culinary herbs from Greece. Based in Italy since 2001, during the last three years she has been splitting her time between Milan and the most remote corners of her native country, travelling to meet farmers and foragers and source the finest varieties of dried oregano, thyme, sage and bay leaves of the Greek nature. When not taken with herby discoveries, she writes about style, food, fashion and culture. She has collaborated with magazines such as Marie Claire, Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, Glamour and Finedininglovers.com