In 2017 we inaugurated the new Academic Year of Abadir (the sixth) with an emblematic figure for young creatives and design schools around the world. Marva Griffin, the lady of design, founder and curator of SaloneSatellite-Salone del Mobile in Milan, a springboard for numerous international designers.

Thanks to her incessant work, over 10,000 young people and about 300 design schools around the world have had in the last 20 years an authoritative stage on which to exhibit their ideas, as well as favoring confrontation with critics, production and the world market. of design. An international and cosmopolitan vision that, through an intensive research and selection of young talents, has always combined the attention to the use of the most modern technologies with the great manufacturing tradition.