Mario Bellini was born in 1935 and graduated in 1959 at the Politecnico di Milano.
He lives and works in Milan. His activities range from architecture and urban design to furniture and industrial design. His fame as a designer dates from 1963. Many of his designs are now in the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since the 1980s he has worked chiefly as an architect in Europe, United Arab Emirates, Japan, USA and Australia. Himself an avid art lover and collector, he is also well known as an art exhibition designer.