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Artemide
Artemide is one of the most prestigious names of the Italian design: the company has in fact left an indelible impact on the lighting sector. Artemide lamps are often courageous and experimental, but also incredibly practical. The philosophy of Artemide follows the principle of the "Human Light", according to which every lighting project must focus on the human being and his needs. Another peculiarity of the brand is the incessant tendency to innovation, so much that over 60 people are employed in its own Research & Development center.Read more

Designed by

Aldo Rossi

Aldo Rossi
Aldo Rossi (1931-1997) was in 1990 the first Italian architect to win the Pritzker prestige, the highest recognition in the field, considered as a Nobel Prize for architecture. Born and lived all his life in Milan, he studied under Piero Portaluppi and took his first steps in the world of architecture, first in the studio of Ignazio Gardella and later in that of Marco Zanuso. His most famous architectures, such as the Monte Amiata residential complex in the Gallaratese district of Milan, the Carlo Felice Theater in Genoa or the Teatro del Mondo created as an installation for the Venice Biennale stand out for a rigorous interpretation of postmodernism, played on solids primary geometric volumes. And the same poetics has also been applied to the design of furniture and objects since in the 80s he was convinced by his friend Luca Meda to measure himself in this new field and to inaugurate a fruitful collaboration with the company Molteni & C. His furniture - and even his table accessories, designed for Alessi - reflect a rigorously architectural approach, which makes them almost small domestic monuments.Read more