Michele De Lucchi

Michele De Lucchi is famous as the designer of the world’s best-selling lamp, Tolomeo, made by Artemide since 1987. The object was born in the wake of De Lucchi’s intense research experiences of the seventies and eighties. In his radical period De Lucchi founded the Cavart Group, which put on performances somewhere between art and architecture in the stone quarries of the Veneto. In the eighties De Lucchi also took part in the experiences of Alchimia and Memphis, attracting the attention of the media and the public all over the world. De Lucchi had already come into contact with personages of the calibre of Sottsass, Branzi and Mendini when still attending university in Florence, where he graduated in architecture in 1975. While pursuing the most experimental ideologies in the field of design, he also started to work for one of Italy’s biggest industrial groups at the time, Olivetti, where he acquired vast experience working in the world of the office. ....

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