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Died at 89 Ernesto Gismondi, star of Made in Italy design and founder of Artemide Group, one of the main operators in the lighting sector, internationally awarded and known for its avant-garde. The architect broke the news through the social network Stefano Boeri: “Ernesto Gismondi left us, great innovative and dear friend – we read in a message shared on Facebook -. Ernesto lit up the world with Artemide, he was the first to use plastic to make furniture, he ran with his head held high in the seas of politics and entrepreneurship, open to all and Triennial new horizons in design and creativity. We will miss his antiretoric genius and courage; very much. A big hug to your beloved Carlotta ”.
Born in 1931, Gismondi was born in San Remo and after obtaining a degree in aeronautical engineering at the Politecnico di Milano, in the late 1950s he obtained a degree in missile engineering at the Superior School of Engineering in Rome. Since the early 1960s he dedicated himself to the design and production of luminaires, founding in 1959 with the designer Sergio Mazza “Studio Artemide Sas”, from which the Artemide Group will later be born, which over the years has become one. of the main operators of thedesigner lighting, A role that has earned him important awards such as the Compasso d’Oro Career Award (1994) and the European Design Prize (1997).
Among those who mourned the disappearance of Gismondi, also the mayor of Milan, Beppe Sala: “With the death of Ernesto Gismondi, we lose one of the protagonists of that world of design that made Milan great,” he wrote. An aerospace engineer himself, has repeatedly said that he had chosen Milan attracted by its great vitality in the 60s. But it is to people like Ernesto Gismondi that we owe the development of Milanese design as synonymous with the Italian lifestyle throughout the world ”.
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