Franco Raggi for Fontana Arte

FRANCO RAGGI (Italy, 1945) for FONTANA ARTE.
Flûte floor lamp.
Chromed metal and glass.
Presents label.
Measurements. 191 x 27 x 27 cm.
Flûte floor lamp made of chromed metal with virdio lampshade. Franco Raggi graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1969 and that same year began working for Nizzoli Associati. From 1971 to 1975 he was editor of Casabella magazine and from 1977 to 1981 editor-in-chief of the design magazine Modo, which he edited until 1983. In 1973 he organized the first critical exhibition of radical Italian design on behalf of IDZ, Internationales Design Zentrum, in Berlin. Between 1975 and 1977 he collaborated in the organization and coordination of the Visual Arts-Architecture Section of the Venice Biennale. He was director of the "Raccolta del Design" section of the Milan Triennale from 1979 to 1980, organizing several exhibitions in the early eighties, and has designed architecture, models, exhibitions, books, scenographies, rooms and articles for famous international design companies. He has collaborated for many years with FontanaArte. In the early eighties, under the artistic direction of Gae Aulenti, he designed with Daniela Puppa the designs for the company's events. Since 1980 he has realized numerous successful projects for FontanaArte: the Velo (1988-89), Flûte (1999) and Drum (2005) families.