P428 floor lamp designed by Pia Guidetta Crippa for LUMI Milano 1970. Pia Guidetti Crippa is a laudable but lesser-known talent. The daughter of Carlo Antonio Crippa who in 1944 opened a humble lighting workshop on the outskirts of Milan; she spent her childhood amongst the furnace as her father sculpted molten glass. With Pia Guidetti Crippa at the helm, LUMI created some of the most well known lighting of the 1970s - collaborating with designers such as Carlo Nason, Oscar Torlasko and Rodolfo Bonetto. For thirty years Pia Guidetti Crippa led LUMI with skilled craftsmanship and innovation, and since then LUMI has been included heralded as a mainstay of Italian design. In 2010 the catalogue, “The Companies of Italian Design: 1950-2000” by Giuliana Gramigna, included LUMI in the 127 famous names that represent “Made in Italy”.
P428 floor lamp designed by Pia Guidetta Crippa for LUMI Milano 1970. Pia Guidetti Crippa is a laudable but lesser-known talent. The daughter of Carlo Antonio Crippa who in 1944 opened a humble lighting workshop on the outskirts of Milan; she spent her childhood amongst the furnace as her father sculpted molten glass. With Pia Guidetti Crippa at the helm, LUMI created some of the most well known lighting of the 1970s - collaborating with designers such as Carlo Nason, Oscar Torlasko and Rodolfo Bonetto. For thirty years Pia Guidetti Crippa led LUMI with skilled craftsmanship and innovation, and since then LUMI has been included heralded as a mainstay of Italian design. In 2010 the catalogue, “The Companies of Italian Design: 1950-2000” by Giuliana Gramigna, included LUMI in the 127 famous names that represent “Made in Italy”.
