Massimo Mercurio

Massimo Mercurio (born 1969) is an Italian designer, engineer, artist and sculptor, born in the Eternal City of Rome. He is the creative director of Mercurio Design Lab (MDL), an Italian luxury design firm based in Singapore, and the managing director of Metakaos, the sister company of MDL, a comprehensive solutions provider. Massimo graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", majoring in Fluid Dynamics, Thermo Dynamics and Energy Savings. He subsequently furthered his studies in Civil Engineering and Architecture at Pescara University. He moved to Asia at the age of 24 and settled down in Singapore, working with a German main contractor, Meissner + Wurst. He started A.M. Associates in 1996, a division of the Italian consortium, AMA Group. The company oversaw many projects in Asia and offered project management and design services on top of the usual simple supervision duties that the company undertakes. In 2001, he devised a new form of direct procurement in the building construction industry dubbed “contract management”. It is today taken as a model in the Southeast Asian construction market. He founded Metakaos, a comprehensive art solutions provider and Mercurio Design Lab soon after, a luxury Italian design firm based in Singapore.
Today, he is still actively in-charge-of the Asian operations of the Group. At the same time, he is actively working on expanding the presence of Metakaos and Mercurio Design Lab.
Education
After his early school years, Massimo attended the school of Classical Studies at the Marcantonio Colonna College that was managed by the Irish Institution of Christian Brothers, majoring in Art, Philosophy and Literature. He then furthered his education at the faculty of Engineering at the La Sapienza University in Rome specialising in Thermodynamics and Renewable Energies.
After obtaining a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Massimo furthered his studies in Architecture at the university of Pescara where he managed to obtain the necessary foundation for a multi faceted designer.
Career Overview
Massimo began his career under the apprenticeship of M+W. Projects that he undertook were mostly related to the semiconductor industry, mainly wafer fabrications, in particular CSM Fab2 which was the first one, CSM Fab3, TECH 2 in Singapore and SMT1 in Thailand. In 1996, Massimo started A.M Associates and acted as Managing Director of the company. Projects undertaken were heavily related to the semiconductor industry.
In 2007, Massimo started an art gallery Metakaos, which served as a valuable marketing avenue for the AMA business in Singapore and the region. Subsequently Mercurio Design Lab was created to allow re-positioning of the heavy industrial AMA portfolio, to have a distinctive presence in the premium lifestyle industry as a luxury lifestyle design studio. The Lab has taken many upscale and prestigious projects, such as The Hamilton, Grange 74 (iLiv @ Grange) in collaboration with Phillipe Stark who will be designing the interiors, among many others.
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