Milan: Where It Began

In 2001, Felicia Ferrone designed the first-of-its-kind Revolution Collection as a self-initiated project, creating the category that defines modern tableware today, as recognized by the press. After licensing partners failed to execute her complete vision, she rescinded the licensing rights and launched fferrone in 2010 to realize the work as intended. The Revolution Collection now resides in The Art Institute of Chicago's permanent collection.

Drawing on her architectural training and transformative years working in Milan's notable studios, Ferrone embraced the Italian philosophy of dal cucchiaio alla città (from the spoon to the city)—applying the same fundamental design principles whether creating a spoon or a city plan: function, form, context, proportion, balance, and scale.

Approaching glassware as spatial design, she creates objects that are familiar yet surprising, simple yet sophisticated, minimal yet emotionally rich. This achieves sustainability through timeless formal beauty and emotional attachment.

Czech Craftsmanship

Each piece is individually hand-shaped using flameworking techniques in one of the Czech Republic's most significant glassmaking towns. Working with master artisans, Ferrone continues to push the boundaries of borosilicate glassmaking through collaborative innovation. These complex methods, requiring exceptional skill and impossible through industrial production, achieve forms that exist neither of the past nor present, but of an enduring future.

Cultural Impact

Film directors choose fferrone pieces for franchises like Star Wars and John Wick because they represent tomorrow's design language. Restaurants like The French Laundry and Per Se select them because they understand that exceptional dining requires exceptional objects. With proven museum and cultural validation, these are design objects with lasting collectible value.

Thought Leader

Featured in over 150 worldwide publications, including Vogue, Architectural Digest, and The New York Times, Ferrone has established herself as a thought leader in design. She is a Clinical Professor and Chair of Industrial Design at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), where she teaches the same principle she practices: make your own table rather than wait to be chosen.

Each fferrone piece represents authentic design DNA—the original vision that sparked a global movement in contemporary design. She created pieces that deliver lasting emotional connections through pioneering design.