MARTINELLI LUCE is a company renowned worldwide. I would also say it is a
reference in the realm of Italian Design. And this reputation was obtained thanks to
Elio Martinelli, my father, founder of the company. Martinelli Luce was born in the
1950s in the center of Lucca, a beautiful city in Tuscany, in a laboratory where lots
of ideas took shape and where production began. Lucca, a city without significant
traditions in the world of design, whose influence and importance was perceived
by just a few. The ability for research and the elaboration of innovative proposals
allowed Martinelli Luce to take on a prominent position on an international level and
to become one of the embodiments of Made in Italy. The lamps of the Martinelli
Luce collection not only express aesthetically pleasing forms, but also represent
reference points for technological development and research. Some of the lamps
produced mark historical periods, contributing to underscore and enhance them.
And others, albeit not as famous, are certainly no less important. The history
of Martinelli Luce is an important added value that was difficult to obtain and
that must not be lost. It derives from the work of an ensemble of persons who
have contributed to the success of the company. Today, design and production
evolution is very fast-paced, and the world of design, too, is affected. In particular,
the field of lighting, where the development of light sources always opens up
new horizons for creativity and the progress of technology affords solutions and
creations retained almost impossible before. Designing light surely represents
a great ambition, because it is difficult to recreate or even to just come close to
arousing those emotions, those relations that we experience every day and that
we perceive through changes in sunlight, colors, brightness, chiaroscuro effects,
shadows… Almost impossible, I would venture to say. We have been trying for
many years. Perhaps we have been able to do something – my father, the external
designers who have collaborated and still today collaborate with us, and me, too,
who has been... forging on for some time.
Emiliana Martinelli
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