Valerio Sommella is an Italian industrial designer, born in Cortona, Tuscany, and raised in Milan where he graduated with Honours at the Design Department of the Milan Polytechnic.He considers each project as an opportunity to express his idea of design, which investigates the language of objects through formal, material and technological research.He describes the products he designs not as chapters of the same book, but as short stories, of various kinds, each with its own plot, characters and ending.