Marialaura Rossiello Irvine graduated in Architecture in Naples under Riccardo Dalisi. From the poetry of design and a deep respect for tradition, she was catapulted in 2000 into the capital of Italian design, Milan, where she attended a master in Strategic Design at Politecnico. Concreteness became a challenge, marketing, communication and strategy the keynote. For a number of years she collaborated with Italian design brands, and grew accustomed to consider the product within a comprehensive corporate process. Then she tiptoed into a different British atmosphere, into Studio Irvine founded in the ‘90 by her late husband James Irvine, where industrial products was the beating heart of design.