- In 1979 he was awarded the prestigious Italian industrial design award Compasso d'Oro.
- In 2005 he received his second Compasso d'Oro Award.
- His design works are included in permanent collections of museums such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, and the ADI Design Museum in Milan.
- On 15 October 2018 he was awarded the Rolf Schock Prizes by the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts.
- In 1976 he established Studio Alchimia.
- Co-founded Archizoom Associati with Gilberto Corretti, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Morozzi in 1966 in Florence where they developed the No-Stop City.
- In 2008 he was named an Honorary Royal Designer for Industry by the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in the UK.
- Studied as an architect at the Florence School of Architecture, receiving his degree in 1966.
- Served as the cultural director of Domus Academy, Italy's first postgraduate design school, for its first ten years.
- Was a professor and chairman of the School of Interior Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan until 2009.
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