ABOUT US
OUR PHILOSOPHY
ANTIBIOTICO is an artistic design brand with a fun-loving spirit. We are dedicated to design statement homeware pieces and accessories, artistic objects in limited edition along with bespoke tailored projects.
Small but full of creative attitude that empower and inspire people. The idea of rational products and functionality is not central to our design, we want to create objects that are able to evoke empathy with people and ignite their emotions.
Our source of inspiration is from contemporary art. For us, the semantic, expressive and emotional value of the objects is fundamental. After the long time of cold aesthetic trend, we would like to bring people back to warm, as we believe that everyone has a need to find warmth in the home objects. For Antibiotico, the real luxury of the brand is to restore space to fantasy and inspire emotions to life.
Launched in Shanghai in 2018, ANTIBIOTICO was born out of the dream to bring a joyful and adventurous spirit to everyday life. Our multi-cultural team members are from Milan, Shanghai and Stockholm, we work and live between China and Europe with our shared passion for Shanghai. We are intergenerational creative professionals of art, culture and design with a transversal approach to lifestyle that stimulate and embrace different cultural sectors.
ANTIBIOTICO’s ongoing partnerships include long term collaboration with some of the premier museum and design stores: WallpaperSTORE, Shanghai / HOW Art Museum and HOW Store BFC, Shanghai / MAISON JOSEPH, Hangzhou / RAM Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai / YUZ Museum, Shanghai / SORT, Chengdu, Wuhan and Chogqing / BEAST, Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou / POWER STATION OF ART, Shanghai / AD+ among others.
MEET THE TEAM
Luigi Ciocca
Artistic Director, Designer
Luigi Ciocca is an Italian designer and art director who was born in Milan, Italy. With his own fashion design studio in Milan, he created exclusive designs and guided creative directions for his clients as a design consultant, which led to the long term collaborations with many well-known brands in Italy and around the world. He worked for more than 15 years in Asia, especially in Japan with Mitsukoshi Department Store (Tokyo), Itochu (Tokyo), Les Coqs Sportiv - Descente (Osaka) and others. In 2010 he moved to Shanghai, China.
Luigi's creations express a 360-degree creative spirit that expresses his knowledge and passionate interest in fashion, design and art. He is a passionate collector of contemporary art, but also pieces of avant-garde designs, furniture, objects, books… Tireless traveler, passionate about different cultures, his pronounced aesthetic sense that he has, expressed in his design creations. His spirit is sophisticated and joyful at the same moment, with a great sense of humor and provocation, also expressed in ANTIBIOTICO spirit and products that are provocative and ironic in concepts, contents and designs. Luigi is an inspirational muse for ANTIBIOTICO with his way of being and represents the soul of ANTIBIOTICO. He is the creator of the name ANTIBIOTICO.
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Dubravka Vidovic
Artist, Designer
Dubravka Vidovic was a visual artist, photographer and designer who was born in Zadra, Croatia. She graduated at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan in the class of Prof. Luciano Fabro. In 1999 she took diploma in Visual Arts at Fondazione Ratti in Como, with Haim Steinbach. Since 1999, her work been featured in museums and private galleries in Italy, Croatia, Germany, USA and China.
In 2018 she and her partner Luigi Ciocca conceived ANTIBIOTICO as a creative art-design lab, with an idea to create the home design collections with an artistic spirit and approach. They represent the creative part and soul of the brand, working in the harmony on the creation of the designs, visual and brand identity, but also on the concepts and contents to be transmitted and communicated in a creative and empathetic way.
She was author of the brand name ANTIBIOTICO’s logo. Her approach in ANTIBIOTICO related to an artistic nature of design, which brought and developed a poetic and more artistic meanings to ANTIBIOTICO’s products. She worked transversely between creation of the concepts and texts, designs, visual materials and photographs.
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Chelsea Yang
Brand Director, Strategist
Chelsea co-founded ANTIBIOTICO together with Luigi Ciocca , Dubravka Vidovic, Aijing in 2018, with the purpose of creating a unique artistic design brand that differs and delivers impactful messages.
She set the brand positioning and built the foundation of strategic business collaborations with the leading distributors and clientele in the industry. As a visionary, she represents the brand and establishes & maintains the business partnerships with different commercial units. She manages and coordinates with the operations team and is in charge of the full business sector, a connector between the brand and the market. She also participates in the content development of the brand and works with media partnership.
Chelsea is passionate about art and culture, and fully believes in the magic of dreaming. Thanks to her entrepreneurial experiences in the education and culture field, she understands the importance of creating values from what you do, and always keeping your sense of humor.
Chelsea currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden.
AiJing
Supply Manager
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AiJing is from Shanghai. She works and lives between Shanghai and Geneva.
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“There is nothing more thrilling than being part of the artwork itself. From assisting artists in realising original designs with detail-oriented attention and quality control to finally presenting the designed products to creative art lovers and museums, all phases make my heart race.”