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Artemide Lamps
ARTEMIDE GROUP was founded by Ernesto Gismondi and Sergio Mazza in 1959 and nowadays, the company delivers high-quality lighting to countries around the world. The lamps are manufactured in Italy, France, Germany, the United States, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The company’s goal is to provide lighting to everyone who needs it and for this reason, Artemide often initiates acquisitions in other to strengthen its position as one of the leading companies for total solutions. For more than 40 years, Artemide has managed to remain a supplier of lighting that acts as both companion and comforter, in the physical as well as the mental sense. This has been possible thanks to the company’s on-going innovative processes and general quest to optimize their products. 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 remain a supplier of lighting that acts as both companion and comforter, in the physical as well as the mental sense.
This has been possible thanks to the company’s on-going innovative processes and general quest to optimise their products.
The motto of the different design teams is that the end product should be LIGHT for everyone!
The true essence of good designs for interior lighting permeate Artemide’s portfolio of great designs that serve a purpose. This concept permeates the Artemide portfolio.
Numerous Artemide design icons have been placed in museums of modern art and design collections around the world.
Tizio, Tolomeo, Aggregato, and Callimaco are some of the many lamps that have revolutionised lighting and combined balance with functionality and innovation.
Artemide provides lighting fixtures for private homes, but the company is also happy to provide for large public spaces and businesses that want to improve their lighting situations. But it's also for large public spaces and businesses with similar demands and needs.
Through thorough focus on new technology and development of materials used — as well as streamlining production processes — Artemide continues to improve their position relative to their competitors.
Italian design at its best
The true essence of good designs for interior lighting permeate Artemide’s portfolio of great designs that serve a purpose. Tizio, Tolomeo, Aggregato, and Callimaco are some of the many lamps that have revolutionised lighting and combined balance with functionality and innovation. Artemide provides lighting fixtures for private homes, but the company is also happy to provide for large public spaces and businesses that want to improve their lighting situations.
Through thorough focus on new technology and development of materials used — as well as streamlining production processes — Artemide continues to improve their position relative to their competitors. Numerous Artemide design icons have been placed in museums of modern art and design collections around the world. The Artemide group continues to expand and carry out acquisitions in order to consolidate and maintain their position at the forefront of the market.
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 continues 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 ever beautiful Tolomeo. The architect 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 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 it comes in a variety of colors.
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 Best-known work: Walkman from Sony, computers from Apple, Pod Lens pendant, Goggle wall lamp and Cosmic Leaf floor lamp Training: Designer
Background: 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 studio "de Nimes" together with Jean Nouvel and Philippe Starck.
In 1986 he returned to London where he worked on projects for Airbus, Kartell, Ceccotti, Cappellini, Idee, Moroso, Luceplan, Driade, Peugeot, Apple, Issey Miyake, Vitra, Olympus, Yamagiwa, Tag Heuer, Hackman, alias, Herman Miller, Japan Airlines and Toyo Ito architects.
Ross Lovegrove has received many awards and many of his designs are on display at the biggest museums in the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Axis Center Japan, the Pompidou Center, 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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