Mauro Filicori

Mauro Filicori, a graphic and industrial designer, died of kidney failure at his Amagansett residence on May 8. He was 75, and had lived here year round since 1999. 

Born on March 7, 1943, to Vivina Donini and Ruggiero Filicori in the Italian colony of Eritrea, where his father was stationed during World War II, he spent his early years in Tuscany, living in Siena, Lucca, and Florence. He graduated with a design degree from the University of Florence. 

Mr. Filicori took a trip to America in 1964 to visit the World’s Fair in Queens and moved to Manhattan the following year. He began his career as an industrial designer at Corning Glassware and later worked in graphic design at Saatchi and Saatchi, the advertising agency. 

He was married twice, first to Marina Ospina. They were wed in 1960 and later divorced. In 1985, he married Kathie McGinty, with whom he had a daughter. They divorced five years later. 

Upon launching his own design firm, Filicori Visual Communications, Mr. Filicori landed Texaco as a longtime client, as well as several start-up biotech enterprises that were funded by CW Ventures, an investment firm run by his longtime friends and East End residents Barry Weinberg and Walter Channing.

He loved to spend time on the East End during the summers, while living and working at his Gramercy Park design studio in Manhattan. Before buying his house in Amagansett, he rented houses in Sagaponack and on Shelter Island, and occasionally spent a night camping in a potato field. Afterward, he began working as a design director at Dan’s Papers. He was also a realtor with Prudential East Hampton until he retired to work on his home, his garden, and his personal drawings. A lover of nature and food, Mr. Filicori volunteered at the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton and at the Amagansett Food Pantry. 

He is survived by his daughter, Gaia Filicori of San Francisco.