Valentina Bianco is a designer specialising in children’s furniture and interiors, with degrees in Product and Communication Design and Systemic Design. Her practice explores the relationships between people, objects and environments, creating furniture and spaces that respond to individual needs and evolve over time.

The birth of her first daughter in 2019 sparked a deeper investigation into childhood, particularly how children’s different temperaments influence the way they experience and inhabit spaces. This research led her to establish MADOTI in 2021: an independent design studio and woodworking workshop in the Piedmont Alps, dedicated to design for children. Working alongside her husband, a carpenter, she oversees every stage of each project, from concept and art direction to production and installation. This close connection between design and making allows ideas to be developed, tested and refined within the workshop.

In 2022, she completed the Master’s programme in Design for Kids at Politecnico di Milano with highest honours. In 2024, she joined the same programme as a lecturer in children’s furniture design.

Her work has been featured in children’s lifestyle and design publications and presented at two editions of Milan’s Fuorisalone in Zona Tortona. On both occasions, she designed the children’s area for A Casa Ovunque, an exhibition organised by The Playful Living and Sfera MediaGroup. Since 2022, her designs have also been exhibited at Pitti Bimbo in Florence.

In 2024, her work was also exhibited in Shanghai as part of the exhibition Italy the Land of Creative Blossom.