Guzzini Illuminazione Biography
Guzzini Illuminazione (1958 - ) iGuzzini is the leading Italian company, by turnover, in the lighting sector as well as one of the most important at a European level. Since the first years of its birth iGuzzini has collaborated with the most famous architects and lighting designers in the world: Giò Ponti, Rodolfo Bonetto, Bruno Gecchelin, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Gae Aulenti, Piero Castiglioni, Jean Michel Wilmotte , to name a few. The birth of the iGuzzini company dates back to 1958, when Mariano Guzzini's sons, Raimondo, Giovanni, Virgilio, Giuseppe and Giannunzio, founded Harvey Creazioni on 30 June for the production of artistic objects in enamelled copper. In 1964 the leap was notable: Giancarlo Capici designed the first catalog and the first metalworking machines for the production of lighting fixtures were acquired. In 1973, the year of the oil crisis, the costs of plastic materials increased threefold, putting many of the company's products out of the market. It is in this year that Adolfo proposes to the brothers to concentrate their attention on the production of lighting fixtures, to the detriment of furnishing and decorative ones. The result is a profound restructuring of the company from a corporate, organizational and production point of view. On 26 October 1973 the new iGuzzini factory (of Raimondo Guzzini and brothers) was inaugurated in Recanati and on 31 December iGuzzini Spa was established. It was necessary to wait until 1981, on 26 June, for the birth of iGuzzini lighting and only the year next for the arrival of the family financial company: Fimag, Finanziaria Mariano Guzzini. There are many lighting engineering projects in which the company participates: in 1988 the beginning of the collaboration with Renzo Piano where the Lingotto projector was developed, in 1989 the lighting of the Louvre, in 2004 an important intervention on the Mostar bridge in Croatia, carried out in close collaboration and according to the indications of UNESCO, the lighting of the Beaubourg in Paris, that of the Borghese Gallery in Rome, the Luxor in Egypt, the Seville Expo, the Vatican Museum. For this reason, in 1991 the Compasso d'Oro was awarded to all the companies in the Group precisely for having developed over time a highly coherent design and production philosophy in which the culture of design.
