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Boeri, ‘lit up the world’. Sala, ‘follow his lesson’
There are no better words than those of his friend Stefano Boeri – “He enlightened the world with Artemide” – to remember Ernesto Gismondi, founder and president of one of the lighting brands that made Italian design great, who died a few days after completing 89 years, which he had celebrated on Christmas Eve.
Born in San Remo on December 25, 1931, married to Carlotta de Bevilacqua, vice-president of the group, immediately after graduating in Aeronautical Engineering from the Polytechnic of Milan and in Missile Engineering from the Higher School of Engineering in Rome. Gismondi – who was called ‘the engineer’ – from the beginning of the sixties dedicated himself to the design and production of luminaires, founding with the designer Sergio Mazza Studio Artemide Sas, from which later the Artemide Group that is still based was developed. in Pregnana Milanese. Under his leadership, Artemide has become a major player in the design lighting sector, a role that has earned him awards such as the Compasso d’Oro Lifetime Achievement Award (1994) and the European Design Prize (1997). “It is precisely to people like Ernesto Gismondi – writes the Mayor of Milan Giuseppe Sala – that we owe the development of Milanese design as a synonym for the Italian lifestyle throughout the world.”
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