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COMPANY PROFILE — More than lamps pure emotions.

A company that gives form to ideas. A creative and technological workshop that conceives, develops and produces not only lamps but pure emotions, in collaboration with many other designers from around the world. A company that is free, passionate, unconventional and right at the heart of the industry in which it thrives. This is Foscarini. A designing and technological tour de force, Foscarini explores an entire world of materials and solutions. Their research atelier experiments, free of any mental barriers or technical restraints through flexible, efficient and high quality production,...

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FOSCARINI — INTRO – Prima sede Foscarini, Murano / First Foscarini headquarter, Murano – (in senso orario) lo showroom, nel magazzino il controllo qualità, la mensa, vista degli uffici / (clockwise) showroom, quality controls, cafeteria, offices – Sede Foscarini, Marcon (Ve) / Foscarini headquarters, Marcon (Ve)

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Foscarini’s headquarters are housed in an architect-designed, contemporary building in sync with its corporate mission to provide cutting edge design and sales service with logistics and warehousing providing total quality control. In the mid 1990’s, Foscarini’s wish to provide design service to international markets led to a strategic move from the island of Murano to Marcon, on the Venetian terra firma. Here, they built a new facility, whose modern aesthetic is aligned with Foscarini’s creative corporate spirit. With the same spirit that provides new ideas in lighting design, Foscarini...

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FOSCARINI — COMPANY

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Why are Foscarini lamps so different from each other, yet share common concepts and values? Foscarini focuses on developing new products but chooses only to put into production those that express new ideas. While inspiration is always valued, Foscarini’s development phase sometimes takes years of progressive research to analyze materials, shapes, processes and operating modes that sometimes lead to results drastically different from the initial concept. This is why Foscarini lamps are so innovative yet built to weather the whim of trends and become true classics. – MITE design Marc Sadler,...

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Over 60 models, more than 20 different materials and more than 30 designers come together to form a collection of individual lamps, each with a unique story to address a need with striking beauty. With a surprising visual simplicity, often the result of complicated but concealed technology, Foscarini’s lamps have an impeccable logic that goes beyond the conventional and the commonplace. From its founding, in the early 1980s, Foscarini has stood out from other Murano glass lamp manufacturers because it did not have its own furnace. Not tied to a particular manufacturing process, Foscarini...

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FOSCARINI — COLLECTION MITE – Sviluppo del progetto e lavorazione del diffusore / Project development and making of the shade CABOCHE – Sviluppo del progetto e studio delle sfere / Project development and study on the spheres TROPICO – Studio del modulo / Study on the module

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FOSCARINI — COLLECTION photo Schöner Wohnen / Jeannette Schaum TRESS – Sviluppo del progetto e studio del nastro / Project development and study on the ribbon TWIGGY – Studio e particolari del progetto / Project study and details LE SOLEIL – Dettagli del diffusore. Studio del progetto / Shade details. Project study

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FOSCARINI — COLLECTION LUMIERE – Lavorazione del diffusore in vetro soffiato / Manufacture of the blown glass shade APLOMB – Sviluppo del progetto / Project development BINIC – Schizzi e dettagli della lampada smontata / Drawings and details of the lamp GREGG – Studio della forma e lavorazione del diffusore / Study on the shape and making of the diffuser

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FOSCARINI — COLLECTION 1990 Folio, Lumiere 1992 Orbital 1993 Bit, Havana 1994 Circus 1995 Lightweight 1996 Double, Esa 1998 Totem 2000 Mite, Tite, Supernova 2001 Lite, Tutù 2002 Blob 2003 Ellepi, Kite, O-space, Yet 2004 Gea, Giga-Lite 2005 Big Bang, Caboche, Uto 2006 Twiggy 2007 Allegro, Fields, Gregg, New Buds, See you, Wagashi 2008 Tress, Tropico 2009 Flap, Fly-Fly, Allegretto, Le Soleil, Lumiere XXL, Wave 2010 Aplomb, Bahia, Tua, Troag, Binic, Lumiere XXS 2011 Poly Gregg/Outdoor Gregg, Behive, Birdie, Chouchin, Maki, Planet, Tivu, Falena, Anisha, Colibrì, Fold, Plass, Jamaica, Magneto,...

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FOSCARINI — COLLECTION – LE SOLEIL design Vicente Garcia Jimenez, 2009

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FOSCARINI — COLLECTION – ANISHA design Studio Lievore Altherr Molina, 2011

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Werner Aisslinger, Maurizio Baruffi, Valerio Bottin, Change Design, Roberto De Santi, Tom Dixon, Rodolfo Dordoni, Odoardo Fioravanti, Jozeph Forakis, Enrico Franzolini, Gianpietro Gai, Massimo Gardone, Eliana Gerotto, Giulio Iacchetti, Vicente Garcia Jimenez, Studio Kairos, Defne Koz, Lagranja Design, Ferruccio Laviani, Jean Marie Massaud, Studio Lievore Altherr Molina, Paolo Lucidi, Alessandra Matilde, Nendo, Luca Nichetto, Philippe Nigro, Atelier Oï, Ludovica e Roberto Palomba, Simon Pengelly, Luca Pevere, Karim Rashid, Marc Sadler, Patricia Urquiola, Ionna Vautrin, Anderssen & Voll,...

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FOSCARINI — DESIGNERS Design first and foremost. Thought before shape. The spirit of the project guides the choice of material. These are the distinguishing traits of a huge “work in progress” that teams up great maestros and young talents. Foscarini has so many designs, both from young designers as well as established names, which have gained much notoriety. For example, Rodolfo Dordoni’s, Lumiere, has become one of Foscarini's bestsellers, a contemporary, or rather universal revamping of a classic blown glass lamp. Ferruccio Laviani’s Orbital, “sculpture lamp” was so impressive it was...

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Foscarini’s flexibility and desire to collaborate with designers have enabled it to develop custom projects by grouping their lamps in large numbers, responsive to the most diverse contemporary settings. The company is willing to produce custom products,simply by changing standard finishes and compositions. Foscarini also devises specific solutions for large spaces in the form of light sculptures that are the result of the creative assembly of standard lamps. This has given rise to lighting events, including Fiber Evolution in collaboration with Marc Sadler and Tropico with Giulio Iachetti,...

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