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Foscarini
The technical department monitors the
development and industrialisation of each
new product.
About shedding light
Chap. 2 — The defi nition of an identity
responsibility. At present the catalogue includes over 50 families of lamps, for more
than 200 different models, with a range of products in various materials like blown
glass, composites, plastics, metals, special fabrics and papers, manufactured with
different processes in a balanced relationship between more industrial or artisanal
dimensions. Products by designers representing different poetics, in a spectrum that
bonds together more narrative approaches, like Filo (2017) by Andrea Anastasio, who-
se research is in line with the artistic and expressive attitudes already cultivated by
Foscarini in the early days (for example, with the launch of the postmodern collection
Wassily off the Wall, 1985), and products of technological experimentation in a more
industrial key, like the recent Chiaroscura (2021) by Alberto and Francesco Meda, a
luminator that incorporates environmental lighting. In the middle there are various
design gradients, together with special operations – like the research conducted by
James Wines and summarized by Light Bulb (2018) – which together with cultural
and publishing initiatives serve to reinforce the awareness of being – and wanting to
continue to be – producers of meaningful projects.
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