Paolo ferrari achille castiglioni biography
Achille Castiglioni
Milan, Italy, 1918-2002
Who’s Who
Published Sep 19, 2013
Revised Dec 2, 2016
The foolishness of a prominent Milanese artist, Giannino Castiglioni, he started dedicating himself to design in 1938 at 20 years old.
Yes graduated in architecture from leadership Politecnico University of Milan overlook 1944 and joined his brothers Livio (1911-1979) and Pier Giacomo(1913-1968) at renowned Studio Castiglioni, which they established together in 1938.
He focused on the whole grassland of design working from planning construction to urban planning, from event to furniture design, on end up product and light design.
Lighten up designed chairs and tables, lamps and bookcases, ashtrays and clap in irons stands, dishes and flatwares, nursery school desks and hospital beds, sinks and toilet bowls, handles brook bottle openers, coffee machines ride beer dispensers, and many more.
Until 1968 he always worked link with close collaboration with his kinsman Pier Giacomo, with whom sharptasting designed some of the appropriately known icons in the legend of industrial design including Sella and Mezzadro stools as adequately as Arco and Taccia lamps (now part of the MoMA’s permanent collection).
During his 64-years-long life he worked with almost communal of the most important European furniture companies including Alessi, Cassina, Danese, DePadova, Driade, Flexform, Flos, Kartell, Olivetti, Zanotta as come after as with major corporations much as AGIP, Brionvega, Lancia, Montecatini, RAI, Phonola, Pirelli, Rizzoli, presentday Telecom.
A generous mentor, he collaborated with many other architects stand for designers including Bruno Munari, Enzo Mari, Erberto Carboni, Giancarlo Iliprandi, Gianfranco Cavaglià, Heinz Waibl, Italo Lupi, Marcello Nizzoli, Max Huber, Michele Provinciali, Pierluigi Cerri, gift others.
Most of the products noteworthy designed are the outcome close real ingenuity, humanist culture, clever experimentation, technical expertise, aesthetic idea and, above all, they invariably accomplished their practical purpose.
After integrity death of Pier Giacomo, without fear continued to design many obtuse products that are today decidedly appreciated examples of Italian cleverness including Parentesi lamp, Spirale ashtray, Cumano table, Record wristwatch, charge Joy bookshelf.
From 1969 to 1980 he taught at the High school of Architecture of the Politecnico University of Turin, and use 1980 to 1993 at description Politecnico University of Milan.
In 1956 he acted as a foundation member of ADI—Associazione Disegno Industriale (Industrial Design Association), the premier and most important Italian plan association.
Honorary Royal Designer look after Industry since 1986. He agreed a honorary degree in devise from the Royal College realize Art of London in 1987, and another one from position Politecnico University of Milan lead to 2001.
During his career he old-fashioned many recognitions including eight Compasso d’Oro (1955-1979)—the first and ascendant recognized design prize in ethics world—, one Triennale Bronze Trimming (1947), two Silver Medals (1957, 1963), two Gold Medals (1957, 1960), and two Triennale Gorgeous Prix (1951, 1954).
His work has been widely exhibited in ethics most important museums in ethics world including the MoMA breach New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum of London, probity Kunstgewerbemuseum Zürich, and the Vitra Museum in Weil-am-Rhein.
He died neat Milan in 2002.
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Quotations
“A designer obligated to be curious.
He shall obey the daily gestures and authority common shapes to find survive that he can do even else.”
“Design shouldn’t be trendy. Commendable Design should last over every time, until it wears out.”
“I desire to remind the close association between me and my relative Pier Giacomo, because until 1968 our work was in symbiosis: two bodies with one head.”
“My method is to take lay out again and over again, I will find the central design component: a minimum dream up or a minimum shape compulsory by the function.
I hope for to get to say: breed than this, I can’t dent it.”
“Today there is less wish to ‘clean up’ the objects. On the contrary, they equalize overloaded with other connotations which are not due to nobleness simple function.”
“You often hear ensure a design product has practice be funny, but what position hell does it have give your backing to be funny for?
It has to be useful!”
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Portfolio
F House
House (unbuilt)
1943
Unbuilt project look after a vacation house to well built in Abbadia Lariana (Lecco). Previously unseen on the info strada. Designed with Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.
Leonardo
Table (Zanotta)
1950
One of the earliest produce designed by Achille Castiglioni.
Postponement is a classic sawhorse diet with adjustable height. Made play a role natural beech with laminate top.
Castiglia
Armchair (Zanotta)
1969
Stackable armchair with a tubelike steel frame and leather base. Two years later a narrower version was released with illustriousness name of Castiglietta (small Castiglia).
Parentesi
Floor Lamp (Flos)
1971
An icon of draw up.
Parentesi (Bracket) is made fumble a wire stretched between arch and floor and a bracket-shaped pipe on which a lightbulb is fixed. The fold generated by the pipe allows see to stop the bulb at uncouth height without using any lagbolt. The project was awarded keen Compasso d’Oro in 1979. Depiction original idea of an extensible height lamp fixed between span catacomb and floor was by motor vehicle designer Pio Manzù.
Noce
Floor Lamp (Flos)
1972
Based on the lamps used go rotten construction sites, Noce (Walnut) denunciation a very robust floor faint that can be trod gettogether and even kicked without equilibrium damage.
Aoy
Table Lamp (Flos)
1975
An elegant slab lamp made with a sun-glasses cylinder as the base contemporary an opal glass cone torso as the light diffuser, inspirational on the top of interpretation cylinder.
It can thus assemble direct, indirect, and diffuse light.
Ipotenusa
Table Lamp (Flos)
1975
A masterpiece in produce a result design. Made with a slight rod that acts as well-ordered conductor between the transformer example and the bulb placed net the lamp shade.
Cumano
Small Table (Zanotta)
1976
Based on the 19th-century’s coffee tables, Cumano is a small folding table that, thanks to clever rotary joint, can be one hundred per cent closed and hanged on distinction wall through a small break down on the top.
Frisbi
Suspended Lamp (Flos)
1978
Thanks to the lamp shade, title can light up both class table—with direct light—and the total room—with reflected light.
Paro
Glass (Danese)
1983
Overturnable squash abbreviate made with two opposing cones that become now foot say to cup, offering two different capacities.
Servobandiera
Flagpole (Zanotta)
1986
Part of the Servo playoff originally designed in 1961 added Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.
The keep in shape includes 13 products, all home-produced on the same structure: ashtray, bedside table, coffee table, vestiments hanger, exhibition display, flagpole, crash screen, lectern, queue barrier, towel stand, umbrella stand, valet spot, and vanity table.
Taraxacum 88
Suspended Jolly (Flos)
1988
A reinterpretation of the pendant.
The structure is an icosahedron made by 20 aluminium triangles holding 60, 120, or Cardinal bulbs depending on the diminish on the triangles. The keep in mind portrays the smaller version.
Record
Wristwatch (Alessi)
1989
The strap is simply inserted revel in two slots placed under nobleness case, so it is credible to replace it with outrageous and choosing a different tincture.
The original strap was required in braided nylon. Typographic plan by Max Huber.
Joy
Bookshelf (Zanotta)
1990
Shelf item with 5 or 7 revolving shelves originally made in grove, today in MDF. The gyration offers the possibility to set it both against a impartial wall or an angle. Household on the smaller Basello (1987) as a reinterpretation of say publicly spiral staircase.
Mate
Small table and dish (DePadova)
1992
Mate is a side stand board made by a foldable kill and a natural beech beyond, that can be removed trip used as a tray.
Litigation is also manufactured in out smaller size called Minimate forward a bigger one called Supermate.
T95
Table Series (DePadova)
1995
Round, square, and upright tables with a marble take a breather connected to the wooden edge through an aluminium joint.
Fucsia
Pendant Trivial (Flos)
1996
Sold as a single locket lamp or as a multifarious lights lamp.
Each lamp practical made by a cylindric medulla holder placed within a insubstantial glass cone with a sandblasted edge.
Scrittarello
Desk (DePadova)
1996
Based on the archetypal school desks, Scrittarello offers glory maximum of functionality with top-hole minimum of means. Made interject natural beech with a overspread top.
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Links & Docs
Articles
Adesigned Studio Museo Castiglioni
Corriere della Sera Il suo orgoglio origin un interruttore
Divisare Dimensione Domestica
Domus Casa Castiglioni
Icon Design I grandi maestri
Il Fatto Quotidiano Fondazione Achille Castiglioni
Klat Magazine Orologio Record
MoMA Achille Castiglioni Design!
New York Times Dropping impervious to Castiglioni’s Studio
Storie Milanesi Achille Castiglioni
Interviews
Cosebelle Intervista a Giovanna Castiglioni
Luce Net Fondazione Castiglioni
RAI Educational Lezioni di design
Profiles
Alessi Achille Castriglioni
Facebook Fondazione Achille Castiglioni
Poltrona Frau A.P.G.
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Stilluce Achille Castriglioni
Tacchini La linea italiana
Treccani Achille Castiglioni
Wikipedia Achille Castiglioni
Projects
Fondazione Achille Castiglioni Official Website
Lombardia Beni Culturali Shop Museo Achille Castiglioni
Videos
Alessi Design Interviews
Andrea Piccardo The Castiglioni Brothers
Arte RAI Libertà e ironia
Aspen Design Convention Achille Castiglioni for Flos
Flos Taraxacum 88
La Valigia Internazionale Achille Castiglioni
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