The Lucciola lamp was designed in 1971 by Italian designer Fabio Lenci (born 1935), for the Italian lighting company iGuzzini. The name "Lucciola" means firefly. The lamp was available in 3 versions, a bedside table...
In the late 1950s, the sons of Mariano Guzzini: Raimondo, Giovanni, Virgilio, Giuseppe and Giannunzio founded Harvey Creazioni for the production of artistic objects in enameled copper. The name is a reference to Harvey, the...
"Lezioni di design" fu una trasmissione di Rai Educational degli anni ’90 curata da Ugo Gregoretti
Una puntata fu dedicata a Joe Colombo con il titolo "Il profeta del design: Joe Colombo con Ignazio Favata".
La puntata...
The Pileo floor lamp was designed by Gae Aulenti (1927-2012) for Artemide in 1972. It is 135 cm tall, and 35 cm in diameter. The plastic shade pivots like a helmet to direct the light. The base...
L'ETR.200 ( ETR significa ElettroTreno Rapido) è il progenitore dei treni ad alta velocità italiani a potenza distribuita. Dimostrò nei fatti la possibilità per un convoglio elettrico di viaggiare a 200 km/h nel 1936, epoca...
Originally designed to meet the storage needs of artists and graphic designers, its many drawers and shelves can make this "Portable Storage System" fit into any space, small or large. We'd use it in a...
Blow, 1967, is a project of Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino and Paolo Lomazzi and Carla Scolari, for Zanotta, made of PVC ©.
The chair was designed as a piece of furniture at low cost "to...
A masterpiece of design, when the Zanotta Sacco beanbag chair debuted in 1968 it embodied the new freedom that characterized design trends in the ’60s and ’70s.
Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro were a...
Though Tecnica had been producing mountain boots and work boots since 1960, it wasn't until 1970 that their world-famous Moon Boot was conceived, a year after the Apollo 11 moon landing, business man Giancarlo Zanatta...
I Moon Boot (dall'inglese, stivale lunare) sono un particolare tipo di doposci prodotti da Tecnica, industria italiana, nati nel 1970.
Giancarlo Zanatta, giovane imprenditore e produttore di scarponi di Montebelluna, Italia, è in visita a New...