Artemide Accademia Lamps Vintage Design Cini e Boeri Italy 1970s

Designer: Cini Boeri

She graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1951. After initially collaborating with Marco Zanuso, she opened her own studio in 1963. She married the renowned neurologist Renato Boeri, from whom she separated in 1965. In 1979, she won the Compasso d'Oro award for the Strips sofa, designed in 1972 for Arflex and exhibited in the permanent collection of the Milan Triennale. The sofa was born from the desire to design a seating system that was easy to produce and sell, and followed the experiment with the Serpentone sofa, consisting of an integral foam structure sold by the meter. From 1981 to 1983, she taught Architectural Design and Industrial and Furniture Design at the Polytechnic University of Milan. In 1981, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the XVI Milan Triennale. In 1984, she was a member of the Compasso d'Oro award jury alongside Douglas Kelley, Antti Nurmesniemi, Giotto Stoppino, and Bruno Zevi. In 1986, he participated in the Progetto domestico exhibition at the 17th Milan Triennale. He has lectured at leading academic institutions worldwide: the University of Berkeley, the Nucleo del Deseno Industrial in São Paulo, the College of Architects of Rio de Janeiro, the Cranbrook School in Detroit, the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles. He has received the Roscoe Prize in New York (1984), the Stuttgart Design Prize (1985 and 1990), the "Apostle of Design" Gold Medal in Milan (2003), the "Dama d'argento" - Poldi Pezzoli Prize in Milan (2006), the "Milanodonna" Prize in Milan (2007), the "Pyramidi dell'Accademia Italiana" in Florence (2008), the "IIC Lifetime Architecture Award" in Los Angeles (2008), and the Good Design Award in Chicago (2008). On February 22, 2011, Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno, known as Cini Boeri, was awarded the honor of the Italian Republic: Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Cini Boeri's sons are Sandro, Stefano, and Tito, a journalist, an architect, and an economist, respectively.

Production: Artemide

Il Gruppo Artemide (azienda certificata ISO 9001 e ISO 17025) è uno dei leader mondiali nel settore dell'illuminazione residenziale e professionale d'alta gamma. Con sede a Pregnana Milanese, il Gruppo Artemide ha un'ampia presenza distributiva internazionale in cui spiccano gli showroom monomarca nelle più importanti città del mondo e gli shop nei più prestigiosi negozi di illuminazione e di arredamento. Fondata nel 1960, Artemide è uno dei brand di illuminazione tra i più conosciuti al mondo. Nota per la sua filosofia "The Human Light", Artemide è oggi sinonimo di design, innovazione e Made in Italy. Artemide ha contribuito alla storia del design internazionale con prodotti come Eclisse (1967, di Vico Magistretti), Tolomeo (1989, di Michele De Lucchi e Giancarlo Fassina) e Pipe (2004, di Herzog & De Meuron), tutte insignite del Premio Compasso d%u2019Oro. Nel 1994 Artemide ha ricevuto il Premio Compasso d%u2019Oro alla carriera ed il prestigioso European Design Prize nel 1997.

Time: 1970s

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