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Some think it’s just about shedding light. Foscarini 1983/2023

05/04/2024
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“Some think it’s just about shedding light. Foscarini 1983/2023” is the monograph published by Corraini Edizioni that celebrates the first 40 years of Foscarini, presented in preview at Milan Design Week 2024.

Design as we see it, and as it is viewed by those who work with us, means giving meaning to things through confrontation and constant learning. To make not another lamp, but that particular light: which speaks to people, makes them feel at home. Every enterprise has its own way of being in the world. Ours urges us to work on complexity in projects, because doing business means making design culture and producing lamps that are laden with meaning, with the objective of adding a chapter, a paragraph or simply a sentence to the long history of design. The book “Some think it’s just about shedding light. Foscarini 1983/2023” is a journey through forty years of lighting design innovation, as told through our stories, ideas, and products.

A monograph, edited by Alberto Bassi and Ali Filippini and published by Corraini, with six thematic itineraries, each including critical analysis and a selection of lamps, with a recap of the entire product range.

The 320-page volume is enriched by the authoritative contributions of Aurelio Magistà, journalist, author, and university lecturer; Gian Paolo Lazzer, sociologist and university lecturer; Beppe Mirisola, writer; Veronica Tabaglio, researcher; Stefano Micelli, economist and university lecturer; Massimo Curzi, architect; and Beppe Finessi, architect, researcher, critic, and director of the bookzine Inventario.

Testimonies and memories to share and describe the core values and distinctiveness of Foscarini; data and images to highlight the journey taken, delving into its influence on the Italian design landscape, always in a forward-looking perspective, in line with the company’s philosophy.

“Forty years have passed, but when we turn on a new lamp it is always a novel experience. Because there is something magical about that instant in which an idea, having become an object that spreads its glow, demonstrates its light. It is the ancestral fascination with the birth of light – an immaterial material that shapes our world – which makes us still say, after 40 years, that the most important lamp will always be the next one. This drives us to cultivate human short circuits with designers, artists, artisans, without whom not one of our projects could take form.”

Carlo Urbinati
/ Founder and President of Foscarini

Foscarini 1983 / 2023

Some think it’s just about shedding light.

Join us on a journey through forty years of lighting design innovation, as told through our stories, ideas, and products.
A monograph, edited by Alberto Bassi and Ali Filippini and published by Corraini.

Do you want to buy the book?
Find out on corraini.com

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  • Milan Design Week
  • monograph
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