Michele De Lucchi

A designer, architect and writer, Michele De Lucchi (born in 1951) is one of the greatest representatives of Italian design of the last few decades. He is famous for having designed many important products, including the Tolomeo lamp, the world’s best-selling lamp, produced by the company Artemide in 1987, for which he won the Compasso d’Oro two years later. Born in Ferrara, he graduated in architecture in Florence and then became an assistant to the Design course held by Adolfo Natalini, one of the leading exponents of radical architecture. His affinity with the ideas and experimentations of this influential avantgarde movement inspired him to found the Cavart group, which staged performances somewhere between art and architecture in the stone quarries of Veneto. Between 1976 and 1977, he taught industrial design at the Florence University of the Arts. In 1979, in Milan, he met Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis group, while the ....

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