Cristina Celestino was born in Pordenone in 1980 and studied architecture at IUAV in Venice. After working with design studios from 2005, she moved to Milan in 2010 and founded her own studio and brand, Attico Design. Her work is marked by evocative form and a fluent handling of texture, colour and material. In 2019 Billiani appointed her artistic director, and she has since developed a sequence of collections for the company. Frisée, in solid beech or ash, sets curved profiles on bulb-ended legs across chairs, stools and armchairs. Corolla develops rounded, harmonious volumes in an armchair, bergère, sofa and lounge chair. Raquette (2023) returns to the old technique of interlacing wooden slats, its sides recalling the strings of a racquet around soft, organic cushioning. She also designed Timènt, a textile for Billiani.