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Artemide Lamps
Founded by Ernesto Gismondi and Sergio Mazza in 1959, ARTEMIDE GROUP is today a supplier of high-quality lighting worldwide. The lamps are produced in Italy, France, Germany, USA, Hungary and Czech Republic. Aiming to fulfil all lighting needs, the Artemide Group is continuously expanding and acquiring to strengthen its position as one of the world leaders in total solutions. For more than 40 years, Artemide has managed to provide lighting that has served as a companion and a source of physical and mental comfort. This has been achieved through constant innovation and the search for excellence. The design groups and processes have always started by establishing that the value of the end product should be LIGHT FOR PEOPLE!
Artemide Lamps
For more than 40 years, Artemide has managed to be a source of physical and psychological comfort as a lighting supplier.
This has been achieved through constant innovation and the constant search for the optimal solution.
The motto of the different design teams is that the end product should be LIGHT for everyone!
The essence of good interior lighting design is that everything has a purpose. This concept permeates the Artemide portfolio.
Many Artemide lamps have managed to find a place in history and are now exhibited in the world's most prestigious museums.
Tizio, Tolomeo, Aggregato and Callimaco are just some of the lamps that have revolutionised lighting design in perfect balance with functionality and technical innovation.
Artemide is not only lighting for private homes, but also for large, sophisticated installations. But it's also for large public spaces and businesses with similar demands and needs.
With a careful and thorough focus on new technologies and material development as well as improvements and efficiency in production, Artimede is constantly increasing its lead over the competition.
Italian design at its best
The true core of the essence of good design for indoor lighting permeates Artemide's portfolio of good design with a purpose. Tizio, Tolomeo, Aggregato and Callimaco are just some of the lamps that have revolutionised lighting design in perfect balance with function and technical innovation. Artemide doesn't just make lighting for the home, there are also large, sophisticated installations for large public spaces and business with their associated demands and needs.
With a thorough and meticulous focus on new technology and material development as well as improvements and efficiencies in production processes, Artemide is constantly increasing its lead over the competition. Several of Artemide's design icons are exhibited in most museums of modern art and design collections around the world.
The story behind Artemide
Today, Artemide is one of the world's leading lighting companies with a long and impressive history. Getting as far as Artemide has come today doesn't happen by itself. It requires constant renewal, lots of innovation, a keen understanding of design and aesthetics and, of course, a little bit of luck. The Italian company has always stuck to its ideologies, and if you buy an Artemide lamp today, you get the same fundamental values attached to the lamp that you got in 1959 when the company was founded.
Two men named Ernesto Gismodi and Sergio Mazza were behind it when the adventure began. Based in the legendary design city of Milan, Artemide was born alongside the Italian design movement Memphis Art Movement.
One of the founders was Ernesto Gismodi, who had university degrees from both Milan and Rome in aeronautical engineering and missile engineering respectively. He was an engineer first and foremost, but the entrepreneurial dream was very important to young Gismodi. He considered founding a company that produces missile parts - but in a meeting with the other founder, architect Sergio Mazza, who was studying architecture in the Swiss city of Lausanne and already running his own studio, Mazza suggested that it made more sense for Gismodi to design lamps.
The very next year, Artemide released its first lamp, named Alfa and designed by Sergio Mazza. From the beginning, it was important to Gismodi that production technology was considered in the design, and his engineering background meant that the pair could better calculate what was possible and design authentic, honest, quality products at a fair price.
For the next few years, the company will continue to create lamps and grow. In 1967 Artemide receives its first award, the Compasso d'Oro - and in 1972 Artemide creates the Tizio lamp, the world's first lamp with a halogen bulb. Tizio became a symbol of Italian design and some point to this particular lamp as the one that made Artemide world famous.
Today, one of Artemide's most famous lamps is the always beautiful Tolomeo. The architectural lamp has been described as a timeless classic and has been compared to the BIC ballpoint pen, Gibson's Les Paul guitar and the Victorinox Swiss Army knife. The lamp is truly as beautiful and relevant today as it was when it was released over 30 years ago. Today, Tolomeo is available as a classic architectural lamp, wall light, ceiling light, floor lamp and much more - and in a wide range of colours.
In 1995, Artemide received the Compasso d'Oro award again - this time not for a single lamp, but for the company's lifetime achievement.
Ross Lovegrove
Born: 1958 Famous works: working with Sony Walkman, Apple computers, the Aeros pendant from Louis Poulsen Education: Designer
History Born in Cardiff, Wales, Lovegrove graduated from Manchester Polytechnic with a first class BA in Industrial Design in 1980 and took an MA in Design at the Royal College of Art, London, in 1983.
In the early 80s, he worked as a designer for Frog Design in West Germany on projects such as walkmans for Sony and computers for Apple.
He later moved to Paris, where he was a consultant to Knoll Internationale. He was also invited to participate in the "de Nimes" studio with Jean Nouvel and Philippe Starck.
In 1986 Ross Lovegrove returned to London where he completed projects for Airbus industries, Kartell, ceccotti, Cappellini, Idee, Moroso, Luceplan, driade, Peugeot, Apple, Issey Miyake, Vitra, olympus cameras, yamagiwa company, tag heuer, Hackman, alias, Herman Miller, Japan Airlines and Toyo Ito architects.
Ross Lovegrove has received many international awards and his work has been published and exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Axis Centre Japan, the Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Design Museum London.
Lovegrove was awarded the World Technology Award by Time Magazine and CNN in November 2005.
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