EMILIO Bergamin was born in Asolo in the province of Treviso. At the request of his father, he studied economics, but the reputation of the arts was more in him. He studied design at the University of Milan without domestic support. He first worked in Milan, the El Dorado of the artists in the fifties, and later in the USA, most notably for Bloomingdale's and Tiffany's. Even as a young boy, Emilio Bergamin was attached to beautiful things, and his mother often said to him, he should grow up at the court of Queen Taitù. Taitù was an Ethiopian queen of the 19 Century. It was known that she surrounded herself with only the most beautiful things. Translated from the Amharic, Taitù implies the same as: I am the color, I am the light, I am the Beauty, I am freedom. These are the central ideas of the creations from Emilio Bergamin, color, beauty, freedom and light. All his creations are so full of color.