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Michele de Lucchi

Michele de Lucchi

MICHELE DE LUCCHI was born in Ferrera in 1951 and is particular popular with design enthusiasts for his experimental designs in his Produzione Privata collection consisting of unusual vases, lamps and furniture and Murano glass, marble or metal. These were created for connoisseurs who wish to enjoy valuable objects in a limited edition. As a design rebel opposed to the over abundance of superficial products he joined the avante garde experimental design group Studio Alchimia and in the 1980s the Memphis design group, for which he designed Post-modern furniture, accessories and laminates. During this time he rejected the notion of function as the supreme design principle, as evident in his First chair. At the end of the decade, however, he turned to increasingly industrial products which could be mass produced. He succeeded with this with the best selling Tolomeo Desk Lamp for Artemide – a design which, with its matt aluminium construction, graces numerous offices and, after two decades, still embodies the illusion of timelessness.

At the end of the 1970s Olivetti engaged him as a design consultant and in the 1990s he became head of their design department responsible for product development. He has also created products for Compaq, Siemans, Philips and Vitra.

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