Paolo Piva (13 March 1950 in Adria - 6 July 2017 in Vienna) was an Austrian-Italian Architect and Designer.
Paolo Piva was born in 1950 in the Veneto region of Northern Italy.
He studied architecture under Prof.
Carlo Scarpa in Venice.
He worked as architect and created designs for renowned furniture companies, like Poliform/Varenna, De Sede, B&B Italia and Wittmann Austria.
Since 1988 Piva was Professor for Industrial Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
He worked and lived in Venice and Vienna and Biella (Piedmont).