Interior Lighting – Stilnovo luminaires focus on home, hotel and restaurant together with some re-editions of magnificent icons of the past, designed by the Masters of 20th century design.
Giovanni Luigi Gorgoni
Pupil of Giò Ponti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, and Vittorio Gregotti. His name is associated with countless prestigious projects created for Milan, Rome, Madonna di Campiglio, Porto Cervo, Benhazi, Misurata, Tripoli, Gedda, Paris, Cannes, Lyon, Yaoundé, London, and New York.
In 2007, he was awarded the VIA prize by the French Industry and Design Association.
© Giovanni Luigi Gorgoni
Giovanni Luigi Gorgoni
Pupil of Giò Ponti, Ernesto Nathan Rogers, and Vittorio Gregotti. His name is associated with countless prestigious projects created for Milan, Rome, Madonna di Campiglio, Porto Cervo, Benhazi, Misurata, Tripoli, Gedda, Paris, Cannes, Lyon, Yaoundé, London, and New York.
In 2007, he was awarded the VIA prize by the French Industry and Design Association.
© Giovanni Luigi Gorgoni
Achille and Pier Giacomo
Castiglioni
The Italian architect and designer brothers Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (1913-1968) are among the greatest names of modern Italian design. Their father was the notable Italian architect Giannino Castiglioni, and also their brother Livio Castiglioni became an architect and designer. Achille and Pier Giacomo both studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and later worked there as teachers. Their collaboration was productive and innovative, and the designs were often radical and humorous.
Achille and Pier Giacomo
Castiglioni
The Italian architect and designer brothers Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002) and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni (1913-1968) are among the greatest names of modern Italian design. Their father was the notable Italian architect Giannino Castiglioni, and also their brother Livio Castiglioni became an architect and designer. Achille and Pier Giacomo both studied architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and later worked there as teachers. Their collaboration was productive and innovative, and the designs were often radical and humorous.
Joe Colombo
Joe Colombo, a pseudonym of Cesare Colombo, is an extremely original Milanese sculptor, painter, architect, and designer.
His style, defined as “futuristic”, determined by original figures inspired by the most disparate sources, dynamic furniture systems, and the use of flamboyant metals and colors, contributed to changing the day-to-day life, habits, and customs of Italians and people throughout the world.
To this day, almost fifty years after his death, his most iconic products never cease to amaze.
Twice winner of the Premio Compasso d’Oro (1967 – Spider lamp, 1970 – Candy air conditioner), of the Gold Medal at the Milan Triennale in 1964, and of First Prize at the SMAU in Milan in 1971.
Joe Colombo
Joe Colombo, a pseudonym of Cesare Colombo, is an extremely original Milanese sculptor, painter, architect, and designer.
His style, defined as “futuristic”, determined by original figures inspired by the most disparate sources, dynamic furniture systems, and the use of flamboyant metals and colors, contributed to changing the day-to-day life, habits, and customs of Italians and people throughout the world.
To this day, almost fifty years after his death, his most iconic products never cease to amaze.
Twice winner of the Premio Compasso d’Oro (1967 – Spider lamp, 1970 – Candy air conditioner), of the Gold Medal at the Milan Triennale in 1964, and of First Prize at the SMAU in Milan in 1971.
Gae Aulenti
Gaetana Aulenti, born in Northern Italy in 1927, and moved to Milan at an early age to study Architecture at the renowned Milan Polythechnic University, where she defied tradition by being the only one of two women who graduated in her class.
As many of her peers, she started her career in the editorial world by working with the design magazine Casabella, immersed in the flourishing Milanese culture and in the Neoliberty movement, distancing herself from the Rationalism tendency of the war period.
Piero Castiglioni
Piero Castiglioni (b. 1944) is an Italian architect specialzed in lighting design. Together with his father Livio, Piero Castiglioni developed lighting engineering projects for many public and private surroundings, and in the 1980s, he collaborated with the Italian architect Gae Aulenti. Some of his most significant lighting projects include the Pompidou Centre and the Orsay Museum in Paris.
Gae Aulenti
Gaetana Aulenti, born in Northern Italy in 1927, and moved to Milan at an early age to study Architecture at the renowned Milan Polythechnic University, where she defied tradition by being the only one of two women who graduated in her class.
As many of her peers, she started her career in the editorial world by working with the design magazine Casabella, immersed in the flourishing Milanese culture and in the Neoliberty movement, distancing herself from the Rationalism tendency of the war period.
Piero Castiglioni
Piero Castiglioni (b. 1944) is an Italian architect specialzed in lighting design. Together with his father Livio, Piero Castiglioni developed lighting engineering projects for many public and private surroundings, and in the 1980s, he collaborated with the Italian architect Gae Aulenti. Some of his most significant lighting projects include the Pompidou Centre and the Orsay Museum in Paris.
Jonathan De Pas
Donato D’Urbino
Paolo Lomazzi
Paolo Lomazzi’s collaboration with Jonathan De Pas and Donato D’Urbino began in 1966. In the 60’s-70’s they developed a specific interest in creating furniture and temporary architecture with industrially advanced materials and technology. They designed and built a series of pneumatic structures for the Italian Pavilion at the World Exposition in Osaka, for the XIV Triennale of Milan and for Eurodomus. In 1967 they designed an inflatable armchair called Blow and since then have been working in the industrial design field.
They planned and built industrial and residential buildings and extended their focus to the diverse areas of industrial products: home and office equipment, lighting, electronics, bathroom fixtures, etc. Their designs have been produced by well known companies such as: Acerbis, Alessi, Artemide, BBB Bonacina, Bellato-Pallucco, Bonacina Pierantonio, Bonaldo, Cassina-Marcatre, Driade, De Padova, Giannini, Lualdi Porte, Lumina Italia, MDF Italia, Naos, Valli & Valli, Poltronova, Quattrocchio, Robots, Scavolini, Stilnovo, Tonelli, Zanotta, Zerodisegno, Roset, Koizumi, and Santa&Cole.
Jonathan De Pas
Donato D’Urbino
Paolo Lomazzi
Paolo Lomazzi’s collaboration with Jonathan De Pas and Donato D’Urbino began in 1966. In the 60’s-70’s they developed a specific interest in creating furniture and temporary architecture with industrially advanced materials and technology. They designed and built a series of pneumatic structures for the Italian Pavilion at the World Exposition in Osaka, for the XIV Triennale of Milan and for Eurodomus. In 1967 they designed an inflatable armchair called Blow and since then have been working in the industrial design field.
They planned and built industrial and residential buildings and extended their focus to the diverse areas of industrial products: home and office equipment, lighting, electronics, bathroom fixtures, etc. Their designs have been produced by well known companies such as: Acerbis, Alessi, Artemide, BBB Bonacina, Bellato-Pallucco, Bonacina Pierantonio, Bonaldo, Cassina-Marcatre, Driade, De Padova, Giannini, Lualdi Porte, Lumina Italia, MDF Italia, Naos, Valli & Valli, Poltronova, Quattrocchio, Robots, Scavolini, Stilnovo, Tonelli, Zanotta, Zerodisegno, Roset, Koizumi, and Santa&Cole.
Ettore Sottsass Jr
Architect, designer, and photographer, founder of the Memphis Group (an Italian design and architecture collective active between 1981 and 1987), Sottsass, through his production of design objects, always manages to express the emerging ideas of Contro Design or Radical Design, that is, social criticism expressed through objects characterized by the strong experimentalism of materials, technique, and forms, in direct opposition to the common style and trends of the current era.
Winner of the Premio Compasso d’Oro in 1959 and 1970 (Olivetti), and in 1989 (Alessi). Many important exhibitions have been dedicated to him: in 1976 at the Cooper Hewitt in New York and at the International Design Zentrum in Berlin, at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1994 and in 2003, at the Design Gallery Milano in 1988, 1993 and 1995, at the Suntory Museum in Osaka in 2000, at the Museo d’Arte Decorativa in Cologne in 2004, and at the MART in Rovereto in 2005.
His works are preserved in the most prestigious museums throughout the world.
Ettore Sottsass Jr
Architect, designer, and photographer, founder of the Memphis Group (an Italian design and architecture collective active between 1981 and 1987), Sottsass, through his production of design objects, always manages to express the emerging ideas of Contro Design or Radical Design, that is, social criticism expressed through objects characterized by the strong experimentalism of materials, technique, and forms, in direct opposition to the common style and trends of the current era.
Winner of the Premio Compasso d’Oro in 1959 and 1970 (Olivetti), and in 1989 (Alessi). Many important exhibitions have been dedicated to him: in 1976 at the Cooper Hewitt in New York and at the International Design Zentrum in Berlin, at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 1994 and in 2003, at the Design Gallery Milano in 1988, 1993 and 1995, at the Suntory Museum in Osaka in 2000, at the Museo d’Arte Decorativa in Cologne in 2004, and at the MART in Rovereto in 2005.
His works are preserved in the most prestigious museums throughout the world.
Livio Castiglioni
Livio Castiglioni was born in 1911 in Milan, where he graduated in architecture in 1936. He opened a firm with architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni, which his brothers Pier Giacomo and Achille would later join. Lights, sounds, and audiovisuals were his main interests.
