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Ernesto Gismondi, founder and president of Artemide Group, passed away at the age of 89
Ernesto Gismondi, founder and president of Artemide Group, passed away at the age of 89
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“Ernesto Gismondi, a great innovator and friend, left us. He lit up the world with Artemide, he used plastic for the first time to make furniture, he ran with his head held high in the seas of politics and entrepreneurship, he opened new horizons in design. This is how Stefano Boeri (architect and president of Triennale Milano) announces on twitter the death of Ernesto Gismondi, founder and president of Artemide Group. Born in San Remo on December 25, 1931, in 1957 he graduated in Aeronautical Engineering at the Polytechnic of Milan and in 1959 he graduated in Missile Engineering from the Superior School of Engineering in Rome.
Since the early 1960s he dedicated himself to the design and production of lighting fixtures, founding Studio Artemide Sas with the designer Sergio Mazza, from which the Artemide Group will be developed. He established himself as an international designer, participating, as one of the creators, in “Memphis”, an avant-garde movement that represented a profound evolution of the design sector in Italy and in the world and designing several successful devices for the group.
Under his leadership, the Artemide Group has seen its market share grow over the years and increase its international presence, becoming one of the main operators in the design lighting sector, a role that has earned it important awards such as the Compasso d ‘Gold for Lifetime Achievement (1994) and the European Design Prize (1997).
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Sala: “We lose one of the protagonists of that world of design that made Milan great”
“With the death of Ernesto Gismondi, we lose one of the protagonists of that world of design that made Milan great”: announced the Mayor of Milano Sala. “He himself, an aerospace engineer, has repeatedly said,” writes Sala, “that he had chosen Milan attracted by its great vitality in the 1960s. But it is precisely to people like Ernesto Gismondi that we owe the development of Milanese design as a synonym for Italian lifestyle All over the world. We will have to follow his lesson very carefully, already in the firm hands of his beloved Carlotta, to get back on the path of our new development in the coming years. “
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