DIPPING LIGHTS
ANTONI AROLA
He was born in Tarragona in 1960 and currently lives in Barcelona. He studied at the EINA school in Barcelona, and in 1984 he began his professional career at the Lievore and Pensi Studio, and later at AD Associate Designers. In 1994 he founded Estudi Antoni Arola. His projects cover a wide range of fields: lighting projects for various publishers such as Santa&Cole, Vibia, Viabizzuno, furniture pieces, perfume packaging, interior design projects and ephemeral installations. He combines his professional career with teaching, workshops, artistic experimentation and lighting research. His eternal and continuous search for beauty, inspired by ancestral cultures and his particular vision of light, gives him a singular versatility that filters through each project. His work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in cities such as Barcelona, Madrid, Milan, London, Mexico, New York and Tokyo. Among other prizes, he has been awarded the National Design Award 2003, four times with a Silver Delta Award and in 2012 with a Red Dot Design Award.
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James Turrell
ACHILLE CASTIGLIONI Castiglioni was born on 16 February 1918 in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. He was the third son of the sculptor Giannino Castiglioni and his wife Livia Bolla. His elder brothers Livio and Pier Giacomo were both architects Castiglioni studied classics at the Liceo classico Giuseppe Parini [it] in Milan, but switched to study the arts at the Liceo artistico di Brera. In 1937 he enrolled in the faculty of architecture of the Politecnico di Milano. He became an officer in the artillery, and was stationed on the greek front and later in Sicily. He returned to Milan before the Allied Invasion of 1943. In March 1944 he graduated from the Politecnico. When the War was over, Castiglioni joined the architectural design practice that his brothers Livio and Pier Giacomo had started with Luigi Caccia Dominioni in 1938 which had been destroyed by bombing in 1943. Livio Castiglioni left the practice in 1952 however Pier Giacomo and Achille worked as a team. their designs are not attributable to either one of them. After the death of Pier Giacomo (1968), Castiglioni worked alone From 1969 he taught architectural and design subjects, first at the Politecnico di Torino, and then, from 1980 when he became an ordinario or full professor, at the Politecnico di Milano.
Achille Castiglioni died on 2 December 2002 in Milan.
BRUNO MUNARI
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"poet of light"
INGO MAURER He was a German industrial designer who specialised in the design of lamps and light installations.
1932 Maurer was born in Reichenau Island, Lake Constance, Germany, and was the son of a fisherman and grew up there with four siblings.
2000 Lucky Strike Designer Award of Raymond Loewy Foundation, Germany 2002 Collab's Design Excellence Award, Philadelphia Museum of Art 2003 Georg Jensen Prize, Copenhagen 2003 Oribe Award, Japan
1960 He studied graphic design in Munich but In 1960 Maurer left Germany for the U.S., where he worked in New York and San Francisco as a freelance graphic designer, including for IBM.
2005 Royal Designers for Industry, Royal Society of Arts, London 2006 Honorary doctorate of Royal College of Art, London
College of Art, London 2010 Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011 Compasso d'Oro, category career
1984
In 1963, he moved back to Germany Founding Design M, a company developing and manufacturing lamps after his own designs. The company was later renamed to "Ingo Maurer GmbH".
One of his first designs, the Bulb (1969), was included in the design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in 1969.
1996 Maurer created many objects using LEDs. The first was the lighting object Bellissima Brutta in 1996.
He presented the lowvoltage wire system YaYaHo and after that, Maurer was asked to create special YaYaHo installations for the exhibition "Lumières je pense à vous" ("Lights I think of you") at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Villa Medici in Rome, and the Institut Francais d'Architecture in Paris.
1998 Besides the design of lamps for serial production, Ingo Maurer created and planned light installation for public or private spaces. In Munich, he created light installations at Westfriedhof subway station
1989 "Ingo Maurer: Lumière Hasard Réflexion" For this exhibition, Maurer created lighting objects and installations that were not meant for serial production for the first time
Maurer has been one of the most prolific lighting designers, creating more than 150 lights and lighting systems. He is considered a pioneer in the use of new lighting technologies.