A book tells the story of Foscarini's on its 40th anniversary.

Discover the monograph that tells the stories, ideas, and products with which we have accompanied the evolution of lighting design over 40 years.

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Six thematic paths, each with a critical analysis and a selection of lamps, along with an inventory of the entire production.

Presented at the 2024 Milan Design Week, "Some think it’s just about shedding light. Foscarini 1983/2023" is a volume edited by Alberto Bassi and Ali Filippini, published by Corraini, enriched by authoritative contributions from Aurelio Magistà, journalist, author, and university professor; Gian Paolo Lazzer, sociologist and university professor; Beppe Mirisola, writer; Veronica Tabaglio, researcher; Stefano Micelli, economist and university professor; Massimo Curzi, architect; and Beppe Finessi, architect, researcher, critic, and director of Inventario.

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Design as we see it, and as it is viewed by those who work with us, means giving meaning to things through confrontation and constant learning.

Every enterprise has its own way of being in the world. Ours urges us to work on complexity in projects, because doing business means making design culture and producing lamps that are laden with meaning, with the objective of adding a chapter, a paragraph or simply a sentence to the long history of design.

“Forty years have passed, but when we turn on a new lamp it is always a novel experience. Because there is something magical about that instant in which an idea, having become an object that spreads its glow, demonstrates its light – and makes us still say, after 40 years, that the most important lamp will always be the next one.”

CARLO URBINATI
/ FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT OF FOSCARINI


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