Wassily off the Wall
Manta, Screen, Easy
Clessidra, Graphos, Refloz, Indice, Rolli, Plana, Kigo,
Pivot, Floppi, Lift, Monolite, Tilla, Samarcanda, Skeet,
Colora, Luna, Luis, Tandem, Fluo, Achille, Folio, Shape
Foscarini
An architect and one of the most famous contemporary
interior designers for the contract world, he was born in
Romania and raised in Israel. After graduating from
Politecnico di Milano and completing a series of apprentice-
ships in Europe, he moved to New York. Here, he opened his
own multi-disciplinary studio, dabbling in every fi eld of design,
from the design of interiors for commercial and residential
spaces to furniture production, graphics and outfi tting.
In 1985 he designed the Wassily off the Wall collection
with Joseph Mancini.
Adam D. Tihany
Pio and Tito Toso
The Toso brothers are both architects and work in the
fi eld of public and private architecture, and industrial
design, collaborating in particular with furniture
manufacturers. The studio’s activities include outfi tting
projects for trade fairs, shops and offi ces, and company
visual identities. They designed the Manta, Screen and
Easy glass wall lamps.
Carlo Urbinati and Alessandro Vecchiato
They joined the company as internal designers, and
remained almost its sole designers for ten years,
creating more than twenty collections. They started
experimenting with the combination of glass with metal
and halogen light, conceiving lamps such as: Clessidra
and Graphos, Refl oz and Rolli, Kigo and Pivot, Lift and
Plana, Luis and Samarcanda, Tandem and Luna,
Monolite and Skeet, Shape, Folio. The latter is still in
the catalogue today.
Biographies
301
About shedding light
Patricia Urquiola
Spanish by birth but then naturalised Italian, she lives and
works in Milan. She studied architecture at Madrid
Polytechnic and Politecnico di Milano, where she
graduated with Achille Castiglioni. Her projects range from
architecture, especially interiors, to art direction with
some of the most important design brands. Some of her
projects are exhibited in several museums and collections.
Together with Eliana Gerotto she designed the iconic
Caboche family of lamps and the Bague table lamp.
French designer, her creations combine softness and
precision of lines in the encounter between poetry and
industry. In her symbolic and formal universe, every
project is part of a communal whole. The success of
the Binic lamp, which was followed by Doll and
Chouchin, drew attention to her work. She in fact
designed the lamps installed on French high-speed
trains. In 2023, she was commissioned to create chairs
for the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Ionna Vautrin
James Wines
The founder of SITE, a group of architecture, environmen-
tal art and design founded in 1970 in New York. The focus
of his work is the fusion of art, architecture and landscape
in the surrounding context. After being a Professor of
Architecture at Penn State University, he continues to
write and lecture at the international level on integrative
thinking and environmental issues. The history of the
collaboration between Foscarini and James Wines spans
almost thirty years, starting with Table Light / Wall Light
through to the Light Bulb collection in a limited series.
Designers A—Z
301
Bague, Caboche
Binic, Doll, Chouchin
Light Bulb
Foscarini
An architect and one of the most famous contemporary
interior designers for the contract world, he was born in
Romania and raised in Israel. After graduating from
Politecnico di Milano and completing a series of apprentice-
ships in Europe, he moved to New York. Here, he opened his
own multi-disciplinary studio, dabbling in every fi eld of design,
from the design of interiors for commercial and residential
spaces to furniture production, graphics and outfi tting.
In 1985 he designed the Wassily off the Wall collection
with Joseph Mancini.
Adam D. Tihany
Pio and Tito Toso
The Toso brothers are both architects and work in the
fi eld of public and private architecture, and industrial
design, collaborating in particular with furniture
manufacturers. The studio’s activities include outfi tting
projects for trade fairs, shops and offi ces, and company
visual identities. They designed the Manta, Screen and
Easy glass wall lamps.
Carlo Urbinati and Alessandro Vecchiato
They joined the company as internal designers, and
remained almost its sole designers for ten years,
creating more than twenty collections. They started
experimenting with the combination of glass with metal
and halogen light, conceiving lamps such as: Clessidra
and Graphos, Refl oz and Rolli, Kigo and Pivot, Lift and
Plana, Luis and Samarcanda, Tandem and Luna,
Monolite and Skeet, Shape, Folio. The latter is still in
the catalogue today.
Biographies
301
About shedding light
Patricia Urquiola
Spanish by birth but then naturalised Italian, she lives and
works in Milan. She studied architecture at Madrid
Polytechnic and Politecnico di Milano, where she
graduated with Achille Castiglioni. Her projects range from
architecture, especially interiors, to art direction with
some of the most important design brands. Some of her
projects are exhibited in several museums and collections.
Together with Eliana Gerotto she designed the iconic
Caboche family of lamps and the Bague table lamp.
French designer, her creations combine softness and
precision of lines in the encounter between poetry and
industry. In her symbolic and formal universe, every
project is part of a communal whole. The success of
the Binic lamp, which was followed by Doll and
Chouchin, drew attention to her work. She in fact
designed the lamps installed on French high-speed
trains. In 2023, she was commissioned to create chairs
for the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.
Ionna Vautrin
James Wines
The founder of SITE, a group of architecture, environmen-
tal art and design founded in 1970 in New York. The focus
of his work is the fusion of art, architecture and landscape
in the surrounding context. After being a Professor of
Architecture at Penn State University, he continues to
write and lecture at the international level on integrative
thinking and environmental issues. The history of the
collaboration between Foscarini and James Wines spans
almost thirty years, starting with Table Light / Wall Light
through to the Light Bulb collection in a limited series.
Designers A—Z
