The art director of Icone received the world’s oldest and most prestigious award for Italian design. During the evening of Monday 20 June in the spaces of the ADI Design Museum, awards were presented to the winners of the XXVII Compasso d’Oro. Among them, Giulio Cappellini the creative director of Icone Luce, received the Compasso […]
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Masai, Essenza and Duetto 2022 are present in an exclusive space designed by Giulio Cappellini: Superstudio Più. On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2022, Icons Luce is present with its own space at Superstudio Più where it presents the latest novelties all designed by Marco Pagnoncelli. MASAI is a large family of ceiling, wall, […]
Serious, professional and humble: this is Achille Castiglioni’s lesson that should be taught to younger people, in addition to not taking himself too seriously. During the episodes of Icone Talks over the last two years, Icone’s art director Giulio Cappellini has repeatedly invited young people who want to approach the world of industrial design to […]
At Icone Talks, Giovanna Castiglioni talks to us about the studio that has become a museum and the memory of one of the fathers of great Italian design. A studio that became a museum but remained a studio. You look around and everything is still as it was, full of work, creativity and projects that […]
Has the recovery stalled? The Salone del Mobile comes just as companies must respond to a new shift. The recovery had arrived, it is the pre-consecutive numbers processed by the FederlegnoArredo Study Center that say it. In particular, the furniture and lighting system performed particularly well, with 2021 closing with +11% compared to 2019 and […]
AN INFINITE SPACE OF CHROMATIC LIGHTS
Thousands of illuminated colors flashing at lightning speed Immersive installations in which visitors must surrender to the sensation of being in a boundless space made only of lights, images and sounds that repeat endlessly, while everything else is put on hold. This is what you experience in the Infinity Mirrored Rooms of the Japanese artist […]
A lamp and the room comes to life
How the expressiveness of light sources helps interior designers. Two architects and designers talk about it in the Instagram live ‘Icone Talks.” Light. “It fascinates me, in architecture it is the main element, the greatest masters were able to manage volumes and light in an incredible way.” These are the words with which designer Antonio […]
At Icone Talks we talk about the importance of emotionally involving the user of a product with a message with which to identify. Two designers face each other: Antonio Facco, a young and already successful professional, and his mentor, Giulio Cappellini, internationally renowned personality in the field of design and art director of Icone. The […]
You can write poetry with light too
Composing verses to share with cities, to make people think and give hope. Illuminate to bring hope in one of the darkest periods ever crossed by mankind. Light can also be used to write, as demonstrated by the famous artist Robert Montgomery, who uses this type of language to create real light poems. “Like little […]
Three lamps that discreetly illuminate the room while leaving space and visibility for the furniture Creating harmony between lighting and architecture, leaving space, litterally disapperaing from view. Some lamps don’t want to be part of the environment, contribute to the atmosphere in an almost imperceptible way, appearing to the eye only for as long as […]
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