Achille Castiglioni

Achille Castiglioni ( born February 16, 1918 in Milan, † December 6, 2002 ) was an Italian industrial designer.

Biography

After studying architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan he founded in 1944 along with his brothers Livio and Pier Giacomo ( 1913-1968 ), a design office. The brothers were thanks to its simple, factual style of the most important designers of the Italian post-war period. They were known to recompose existing products to sometimes surprising way. Two of their lamps, floor lamp Toio - one mounted on a steel rod car headlights - and the hanging lamp Parentesi were included in the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art.

On the occasion of the XI. Milan Triennale in 1957 they presented their tractor chair " Mezzadro " before, while the designers used a commercial tractor seat and fastened it with a wing nut on a free-swinging band steel sheet. For stabilization, they used a wooden cross that resembles a ladder rung.

Works Architecture

Exhibitions

Industrial Design

Awards

Collections

• Sedia Mezzadro at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Lampada Toio at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Lampada Arco at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Poltrona primates at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Lampada Luminator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York