The work of Gianni Veneziano can be taken as an emblematic case of the unexpected developments and turbolence that have agitated the panorama of the designing of spaces and objects in this end of the century. In Veneziano's work, the primary characters of a situation in frenetic mutation can be recognized. But, above all, one discerns the conditions in which a contemporary designer must operate, first and foremost being the loss of sense of the traditional polarity between "form" and "function", which marks the definitive departure of the 1900s.