Gabriele CHIAVE

Gabriele Chiave – Creative Director
Gabriele Chiave, knows no boundaries. As a lifelong observer of the world around him, Gabriele is driven by the comprehensive nature of design and a desire to ignite meaningful interaction between product and consumer. Born to diplomat parents in Metz, he has lived in Metz, Dakar, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Rome, Milano, Amsterdam and now makes his home in New York city. These diverse resident experiences enable him to bring a global perspective to design like no other. His rich history of education and early ‘design upbringing’ was inspired by design masters Magistretti, Castiglioni, Branzi, Delucchi, Sotsass and Mari who made Italy the worldwide leader in industrial design. In 2007, Gabriele aligned his knowledge of production and functionalism to the emotion and artistry of Marcel Wanders Studio, in Amsterdam, where he began as a product designer and evolved into Creative Director. This period of his career allowed Gabriele to expand his own horizons into experimentation and poetic manifestations of design, making beauty and technical simplicity accessible to all in order to expand human experience. During his career, Gabriele, has designed for and overseen projects in product design, interior design, and art direction for some of the most renowned international design brands including Kartell, Poliform, Flos, Cappellini, B&B, Baccarat, KLM, Magis, MAC, Target, L&V, Fendi casa, AUDI, Kose, Alessi, Christofle, Marks&Spencer, MOOOI, Mondrian, Kameha, Raffles, Hyatt hotels, and many other international companies and hotels.

Today, Gabriele serves as VP, Global Creative Direction – Design & Innovation for the Estée Lauder Companies that include brands such as MAC, La Mer, Tom Ford Beauty, Balmain beauty, Clinique, Jo Malone, Le Labo, Estee Lauder and many more. He also recently founded and launched, Controvento – a multidisciplinary design collective, bringing together creators from Milano, Amsterdam, and New York.