Some people make art. Others receive it — acting as a living channel between the invisible order of the universe and the physical world of form. Riccardo Sirone belongs to the second kind.

Musician, producer, DJ, event director, designer, and tireless explorer of the world’s beauty, Sirone does not define himself as an artist in the conventional sense. He defines himself as someone who raises his antenna — attuned to what the universe wishes to transmit, and capable of giving it form.

His inner compass is beauty. Not as an aesthetic concept, but as a cosmic force — the highest frequency in existence, one that answers to no logic, where the mind surrenders and instinct prevails. For Sirone, beauty is the closest thing to God: a landscape that steals your breath, the silent perfection of a flower, the colors of a distant culture, the arc of a melody, the light in a woman’s eyes. Everything vibrates. Everything transmits. And he feels it all.

With equal measures of irony and pride, he calls himself an engineer of beauty — because in beauty he sees proportions, hidden architectures, profound laws. The number 6 — the sacred number of beauty and harmony — follows him everywhere, a quiet reminder that everything in existence carries a meaning, a role, a precise vibration. The stars do not lie. Matter is never inert. Every form holds within it a message, waiting only to be read.

“I do not create. I listen — and I give form to what the universe already wants to say.” Riccardo Sirone

Travel nourishes him. The stars guide him. Every place visited, every work contemplated, every sound absorbed becomes raw material for something greater. Manomaze is the crystallisation of this vision: an object born from beauty, speaking the language of symbol, made for those still capable of standing before something and feeling it — not merely seeing it.

Rooted in Venice — a city that has always existed at the threshold between worlds — Manomaze carries the soul of a place that understood, centuries before the modern age, that beauty and mystery are inseparable. That the visible always points toward something invisible. And that the path, however winding, always leads home.

“Complex Simplicity” is the oxymoron that describes the stylistic figure and the creative process guiding his trait. His long creative path has been directed to transform this dualism into a harmonious balance with which to shape objects and spaces.

Architect with a master’s degree in industrial design, active in the Italian design scene through a peculiar vision oriented to make every product functional and immediate in use, with a clean and precise visual sign — a simple communicative language with a very strong meaning.

Co-founded DAA DriussoAssociati | Architects with his brother Roberto in Mestre (Venice). Designed permanent showrooms and temporary exhibitions in Italy, Belgium, Canada, UAE, France, Germany, Greece, England, Malaysia, Morocco, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, USA.

Recipient of the Good Design Award (Chicago Athenaeum), The Plan Award, Interior Innovation Award, Design Preis Deutschland, REGULA 2017–2024, Honorable Mention at the XXV Compasso d’Oro ADI 2018, iF Design Award 2023, BIG SEE 2023–2024, DNA Paris Design Award 2024, Archiproducts Design Award, SIT Furniture Design Award 2025, and the 100 Italian Excellence Award at Palazzo Montecitorio, Rome.

Alvise moves discreetly, following the silent path that carries a work from the atelier to the home that will welcome it. His working method stems from afar: at a young age, he entered the commercial world, shaping his vision among fashion companies, where he learned the value of time, listening, and patiently building relationships.

During those years, he developed a precise intuition: every object—be it design or a work of art—finds its meaning only when it encounters someone ready to recognize it. It is from this awareness that his approach takes shape, in which the dialogue with art is naturally intertwined with the commercial experience.

Today, he accompanies private collectors and international interlocutors between Europe, the Middle East, and North America, shaping encounters rather than transactions. Every presentation is thoughtfully planned, every choice is respected within its timeframe.

For Alvise, placing a work is never a transition, but a precise moment: the moment in which something is recognized—between the hand that created it and the gaze that chooses to experience it.

He is available for private viewings and commissioned projects, always maintaining a commitment to discretion and continuity over time.