Arteluce Italian Lighting Firm (1939)
2021-07-30
Arteluce Italian Lighting Firm it was one of the modest businesses that contributed to Italian design’s international success in the 1950s. READ MORERead More →
Pucci De Rossi (1947 – 2013) Italian furniture designer and artist
2021-07-26
Pucci de Rossi was an Italian designer born in Verona and trained with American sculptor H.B. Walker. Pucci de Rossi (1947-2013) is an unusual designer and artist. Jewellery, furniture, sculpture, painting: his works, visually striking and functional, refer to Arte Povera and the neo-baroque work of the Memphis studio. Read More →
Giorgina Castiglioni Italian architect and designer
2021-07-16
Giorgina Castiglioni is an Italian architect and designer who studied architecture at Milan Polytechnic (1969). She is Giannino Castiglioni’s granddaughter, a famous sculptor, and the daughter of Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, an architect and professor. Read More →
Antonio Citterio ( b.1950 ) Italian furniture designer
2021-06-29
Antonio Citterio is a leading Italian architect and interior designer, furniture and industrial designer. Citterio explored the possibilities of new materials and technologies rather than aligning himself with New Design’s more fashionable aesthetics.Read More →
Marco Zanuso Sr. (1916 – 2001) Italian architect and designer
2021-06-28
Marco Zanuso Sr. was an Italian architect and designer. He was born in Milan. He studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, to 1939. Read More →
Franca Stagi (1937 – 2008) Italian industrial designer and architect
2021-06-24
Her most famous piece was the 1967 Dondolo rocking chair made by Elco of Venice and became an Italian design classic. Read More →
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) Austrian Designer
2021-06-21
Although trained and active as an architect, Sottsass secured a permanent place in pop culture with his designs of everyday items. From 1957, he was a consultant designer at Olivetti, where he designed computers, adding machines, typewriters, and systems furniture. Read More →
Rinaldo Petrini ( b. 1931) Italian teacher and designer
2021-06-21
1954, LDV Polytechnic, Alessandria, United Arab Emirates, diploma in architecture. 1968 – Master of Science, University of Tennessee. Doctor es Lettres, Paris, LaSorbonne, 1974. Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1973–1974. Postgraduate architectural restoration, Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, 1973–1974.Read More →
Compasso d’Oro – most prestigious industrial design award in the world
2021-06-17
Aldo Borletti founded the Compasso d’Oro (Golden Compass) competition and the award for product aesthetics at the Italian department store La Rinascente at the X Triennale (see Milan Triennale) in Milan in 1954. In Europe, the award was the first of its kind. Read More →
Franco Mirenzi ( b. 1942 ) Italian Industrial Designer
2021-06-17
Franco Mirenzi is an Italian industrial designer who was born in 1942.Read More →
Marilena Boccato Italian product designer
2021-06-12
Marilena Boccato is a designer from Italy who worked in Treviso and Padua. In 1967, Boccato began her professional career. She collaborated with Gian Nicola Gigante and Antonio Zambusi.Read More →
The P40 articulated lounge chair
2021-06-09
Osvaldo Borsani Armchair (P40) 1955, articulated chaise longue. The rubber-armed chair was a sophisticated ‘machine for sitting’ that could it was claimed, assume 486 positions.Read More →
Franco Fontana ( b.1933 ) Italian Photographer – Abstracted Urbanity
2021-06-08
Fontana has shot advertisements for brands such as Fiat, Volkswagen, Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane, Snam, Sony, Volvo, Versace, Canon, Kodak, Robe di Kappa, Swissair, and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and The New York Times.Read More →
David Palterer (b. 1949) Israeli designer
2021-06-07
David Palterer is an Israeli designer born in Haifa. He is professionally active in Florence.Read More →
Carlo Guiliano (1831 – 1895) Italian Goldsmith and Jeweller
2021-06-04
Carlo Guiliano was an Italian jeweller and goldsmith who was born in Naples and worked in London. In 1860, Guiliano settled in London and worked for Harry Emanuel. He collaborated with Castellani Italian Jewellers on at least one piece of jewellery. In the archaeological or Etruscan style, he was a talented jeweller. He developed his distinctive style, which was copied a lot in the 1880s and 1890s. The Italian-born Pasquale Novissimo, Guiliano’s assistant, created such delicate enamel decoration on Guillano ‘s pieces that they were difficult to copy.Read More →
Matteo Thun (b.1952) Italian ceramicist and designer
2021-06-04
We reject design as an issue of taste! We follow a different strategy:
Simplicity. We always
search for the iconic form and create things that people can understand intuitively. We,
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Michele De Lucchi (b.1951) Italian architect and designer
2021-06-02
At the Universita di Firenze, he experimented with new forms of art and film. In 1973, he created the Cavart group alongside Piero Brombin, Pier Paola Bortolami, Boris Pastrovicchio, and Valerio Tridenti, which was active in Architettura Radicale, filmmaking, written works, and happenings. Read More →
Elio Martinelli (1922 – 2004) Italian Lighting Designer
2021-05-29
He and others founded a lighting company in 1942. In 1956, he founded the lighting firm Martinelli Luce in Lucca, designing plastics and metal and producing a perspex hanging lamp published in La Rivista dell’ Arredamento.Read More →
Pier Luigi Nervi (1891 – 1971) – Italian Architect
2021-05-27
After experience with a concrete contractor, he set up his firm in Bologna in 1923. His first structure was a 1927 cinema in Naples: His first important work was the 1930-32 Communal Stadium in Florence, widely published as an early example of Modern architecture. Read More →
Eugenio Quarti (1867 – 1931) Italian furniture designer
2021-05-24
Eugenio Quarto (1867 – 1931) was an Italian furniture designer who was born near Bergamo. He was professionally based in Milan.Read More →