ARTEMIDE S.P.A. - Key Persons
Carlo Forcolini started his career as a designer in 1970.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Founder of Artemide Group
Job Titles:
- Founder and Owner of Reichert Design
Gerhard Reichert is founder and owner of Reichert Design. Since 2007, he has also been professor of Product Design at the University of Design Schwäbisch Gmünd. From 1997 to 2004, Reichert worked with Michele de Lucchi in Milan, where he designed and developed products for Armani, Artemide, Molteni, Dada, Mauser office, etc.
Gianfranco Frattini was born in Padua on 15 May 1926. He graduated with a degree in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1953.
Frattini opened his own professional practice in Milan, after having worked in the office of his teacher and mentor Gio Ponti. Frattini became an industrial designer by default when he lacked appropriate lighting and furniture for his interiors. His collaboration with Cesare Cassina for his namesake company started in 1954, followed by collaborations with many other manufacturers, such as Bernini, Acerbis, Fantoni, Luci, Knoll, Lema, Artemide (for whom among others pieces with Livio Castiglioni he designed the historic "Boalum" lamp, a true masterpiece) and many others. In 1956 he co-founded ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale - and throughout his career he practiced both industrial design and architecture, focusing mostly on interiors. He was a board member of the Triennale di Milano. Great connoisseur of wood craftsmanship, he forged a long and fruitful professional partnership with the master craftsman Pierluigi Ghianda.
Job Titles:
- President of the Italian Republic
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