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Are the teachings of the great masters of design still relevant? <\/em>
This is what Giulio Cappellini and Lisa Marchesi wondered about at Icone Talks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002), the Milanese architect and designer, form derives from a problem of function resolved with coherence and simplicity. Form thus becomes itself a function<\/strong>, a manifestation that we encounter in space and that cannot be separated from the purpose for which it is used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can we still consider one of the great architect’s great legacies as valid? Giulio Cappellini, art director of Icone, asked Lighting Designer Lisa Marchesi in a new episode of Icone Talks, the “social conversation” on the world of lighting and interior design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Marchesi<\/strong>. I think it’s still valid, for me it’s the basis of design because a form without a functionality is just a drawing, it becomes an art installation, an abstract concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cShape, what a nice function<\/em>\u201d.
-Achille Castiglioni<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was brought up at the Milan Polytechnic, so I have a very technical background, so I cannot separate the two things. For me, a form must have a function, and this also applies to lighting<\/strong>: when I design light, I obviously already know what I have to achieve, I know that I have to make a certain installation, that I have to obtain a certain amount of light and from there I start to create my form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is also true for products: if I have to design a luminaire<\/strong>, I start from the light effect, for example a particular effect such as the “wall washer”, then I create, I study mathematically the photometric curve, I draw it with calculations, trigonometry and all that is needed, I make the reflector and once I study the reflector then I create the body of the lamp. The shape then is the last piece, I started with the function though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Giulio Cappellini<\/strong>. I agree, the old school still has a lot to say. Great masters like Castiglioni, Sottsass, Magistretti and many others have paved the way and taught us, and you Lisa are a demonstration of this, that it is essential to work with great professionalism, always questioning himself, without thinking of having achieved all the goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watch the full version of this episode of Icone Talks, and past ones, on IGTV’s Instagram channel @icone.luce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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