Icone del Design

The lamp Cobra of Elio Martinelli, the designer of light, with its sinuous and dynamic lines represents a successful mix of creative intuition and experimental production. The swivel table lamp, with direct light oriented downward, conceals behind the immediacy of the image, brilliant geometric solutions. Cobra is characterized by a sinusoidal configuration that seems to crystallize the ledge of the snake ready to attack. A powerful graphic sign, of organic matrix, which reinterprets the multiplicity of natural forms through the aid of technical progress.

The stool-symbol of the design design design of the last fifty years in Italy. An informal, versatile and subversive seat for home environments: Mezzadro - in the color variant red - is a stool with an incisive style pop pop pop designed in 1957 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Zanotta - known brand new italian: the two designers decide not to conform to the canon instead to present one of the most famous sessions ever.

Designed by Achilles and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in the 1950s last century, Luminator - the beloved and iconic floor lamp Flos - he's still surprised by his incredible modernity. Thanks to the simple tripod design and elegant stature, Luminator, initially conceived in anthracite grey, is pure functional minimalism now declined in different bright and vibrant colors: white, turquoise, red, yellow.

For over 10 years the Italian design brand Moroso promotes the craft skills of the region of Dakar through the collection of outdoor furniture M'Afrique: a series of sessions and complements that arise from the interweaving of colorful polyethylene yarns that in Africa are traditionally used for fishing nets. The armchair Husk - here to measure L - designed by Marc Thorpe, he troneggia in the space with a comfortable hug that shelters from the outside world thanks to a curtain reminiscent of the design of a harp.

Designed by Tobia Scarpa for Flos - Made in Italy lighting brand par excellence - lamp Chrome Sheet wall is designed to diffuse a direct, indirect or partially diffused light.

An essential but elegant lamp, sinuous and adaptable to any wall or ceiling.

The construction material is steel, cut, folded and powder coated.

The symbol mirror of history design design design in Italy, versatile and subversive for home environments: Milo mirror - from silhouette reminiscent of the Venus of Milo exhibited at the Louvre - is a piece born in 1938 to honor the designer and architect Carlo Mollino in 1973 for the famous brand new italian Zanotta. From harmonic and sinuous lines, it embodies an art that crosses fantastic "bizarre, nervous, intelligent and maniacs".

The ashtray Spiral of Achille Castiglioni for Alessi is a design icon. Inside the circular shape and concave, following the linearity of the edge in stainless steel, a spiral of the same material is improvised in a continuous movement, giving shape to a functional decoration and an endless spiral. The project faithful to the passage of time is one of the best known objects to modern homes (and also contemporary ones) and fits into the home landscape by completing the space with all the creativity signed by Castiglioni. The Spirale thus enters the house with an unconventional silhouette turning into a small bright sculpture, protagonist of each table.

In 1969, the Italian architect Mario Bellini presented for the first time Chiara, a table lamp realized by a single “sheet” plate folded on itself, as a polished stainless steel coat. The rest is history. Among the iconic lamps Flos, Chiara - after more than fifty years - is still an elegant and unique complement of lighting in her design.

Synthesis of expressivity, form and function, lamp Snoopy produced by Flos since 1967 it is a nice tribute to the character created by cartoonist Charles M. Schulz. Designed by brothers Castiglioni, is composed of a black painted metal reflector, a thick glass plate and a white marble base with an innovative dimmer for the time that regulates the intensity of light. A description so technical and neutral makes us lose its main ingredient: irony.

For over 10 years the Italian design brand Moroso promotes the craft skills of the region of Dakar through the collection of outdoor furniture M'Afrique: a series of sessions and complements that arise from the interweaving of colorful polyethylene yarns that in Africa are traditionally used for fishing nets. The armchair Husk - here to measure L - designed by Marc Thorpe, he troneggia in the space with a comfortable hug that shelters from the outside world thanks to a curtain reminiscent of the design of a harp.

Generous proportions and soft shapes for Gustave of Flos, cordless lamp designed by Vincent Van Duysen, perfect synthesis between the most innovative optical-luminous technology and exceptional engineering, developed to respond to the discretionary purpose of Flos for this project: to create the first portable lamp of the market with consciousness of circular design, ecological and sincerely designed against lobsolescence.

Today it is so easy to turn on and off the chandeliers, that we often do not notice how important they are. Yet they are the silent protagonists of the rooms of the house - because light is life. For this reason it is important to focus on the choice of lighting with a personal taste, that embraces design and that it makes us opt for author pieces to look up with nose and use long - especially after sunset. Perfect is the smithfield hanging lamp designed by Jasper Morrison for Flos - Made in Italy lighting brand par excellence.

A new version of the lamp lamp lamp Sailing, light, slender and dynamic created by the creative inspiration from designers Roberto Lucci and Paolo Orlandini for Martinelli Luce. A graphic sign in space. A simple aluminum tubular moving inside a ring holder attached to the ceiling. The variable set allows you to easily lower or raise the aluminium cone with diffuse light and bring it to the area to be illuminated.

The table-symbol of the history of design design design in Italy. A versatile and subversive table for home environments: Zeus coffee table - from green, blue and brown shades - is a piece of art with a classic and decided style conceived by the famous brand new italian by Zanot. In fine gres fine china antifreeze for outdoors with double manual glazed with controlled thickness, from a processing of thirty-six hours to 1250°C is perfect for home environments.

1Bitossi Ceramiche is an excellence of Made in Italy of florentine origin, place of ancient ceramic tradition, where over the centuries the Bitossi were furnaces, sculptors and painters but above all master ceramists. In the course of the 20th century the company of Montelupo Fiorentino introduced an extraordinary stylistic and formal renewal. The protagonist of this change is the collaboration with the architect Ettore Sottsass that gave life to complements that are true works of art.

Since 1971 a must have for all lovers of design design design. Opinion is the ceiling lamp of Flos - conceived by the creative genius of Achille Castiglioni and Pio Manzù - became emblem industrial industrial industrial in the world of'interior in Italy and the rest of the world. Formed by a shaped steel tube on which it is possible to slide the lamp vertically, it can adapt in every need thanks to the adjustment of the height of the light source.

Bitossi Ceramics is an excellence of Made in Italy of florentine origin, place of ancient ceramic tradition, where over the centuries the Bitossi were furnaces, sculptors and painters but above all master ceramists. In the course of the 20th century the company of Montelupo Fiorentino introduced an extraordinary stylistic and formal renewal: the collection Arkitectura of Aldo Londi is an extraordinary example of how art and design can merge to create unique and contemporary ceramic pieces. Built during the period in which the sculptor was artistic director of the brand, from the mid 1950s to the 1980s, this collection is characterized by its artistic representation of animal figures, including fish, birds and cats.

The momentum became icon. The unfolded wings, caught instantly before full opening. In this crystallized momentum over time is enclosed all the value, emotional and stylistic charge of this design icon: Pike designed by Gae Aulenti for Martinelli Luce. One lamp lamp lamp that through its diffuser and the telescopic base from the sinuous and curved trend encloses discontinuity, modernity, humor and grace, elegance and dynamism. It is precisely because of the courage to have proposed all these facets, even contrasting with each other, that Pike resists time with a unique charm.

Bitossi Ceramics is an excellence of Made in Italy of florentine origin, place of ancient ceramic tradition, where over the centuries the Bitossi were furnaces, sculptors and painters but above all master ceramists. In the course of the 20th century the company of Montelupo Fiorentino introduced an extraordinary stylistic and formal renewal: the collection Arkitectura of Aldo Londi is an extraordinary example of how art and design can merge to create unique and contemporary ceramic pieces. Built during the period in which the sculptor was artistic director of the brand, from the mid 1950s to the 1980s, this collection is characterized by its artistic representation of animal figures, including fish, birds and cats.

Designed by Tobia Scarpa for Flos - Made in Italy lighting brand par excellence - The lamp Biagio from the ground is conceived to spread a direct light. The body of the lamp is derived from a single block carved in white Carrara marble. The raw material has natural shades that make the product unique and unparalleled.

The stool-symbol of the design design design of the last fifty years in Italy. An informal, versatile and subversive seat for home environments: Mezzadro - in the color variant white - is a stool with an incisive style pop pop pop designed in 1957 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Zanotta - known brand new italian: the two designers decide not to conform to the canon instead to present one of the most famous sessions ever.

Designed by Achilles and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni in 1962, Archery was the first product of industrial design to be protected by copyright. With the rigor of its lines and the attention in the use of materials, the most famous floor lamp to the mono is the hybrid, with a vocation to the suspension, which has established new rules in the interaction between table and illuminating luminaire, leaving it from the fixed position to the ceiling.

The sack-symbol of design design design of the last fifty years in Italy. An informal, versatile and subversive seat for home environments: Sacco - in the variant with coating vip fabric - is an armchair made of polystyrene balls with an incisive style pop pop pop designed by Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro for Zanotta - known brand new italian: the three young designers decide not to conform to the canon instead to present the most famous destructured armchair ever, that wins the Compasso D'Oro in 1972 and that is exposed to the MOMA of the Big Apple.

The Conical Electric kettle is the result of geometric shapes contained in a kitchen object Aldo Red - the famous italian designer - for the great Workshop Alessi. The Conico was produced immediately after the success of La Conica, the coffee maker always signed Aldo Rossi. It has a magnetic base for use even when cooking induction, totally made of 10/18 steel and signed Made in Italy.