Inspired by iGuzzini

iGuzzini has been designing and manufacturing innovative indoor and outdoor lighting systems since 1959: for years it has specialized in particular in developing custom designs for large spaces, museums and institutions. Thanks to these great projects, as well as an innovative vision, the company was able to research and innovate in the field of lighting technology. Today, iGuzzini has introduced a system of intelligent lighting solutions to its extensive catalog, consisting of elements that interact with each other in an automated manner: using the Bluetooth Low Energy or WiFi protocol, you can manage lighting directly from any smartphone or tablet. In line with iGuzzini's intention, the light becomes portable , which makes it easier to install, program and manage the system: the system can be used in public places, in business areas as well as in your own home, rejecting available services depending on the needs of the project.
The application has great potential in museums, but also in trade and large public spaces such as airports: thanks to the beacon technology integrated into the lighting system and the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, it is possible to receive digital information. Thanks to the dedicated app, visitors can receive up-to-date information, videos and detailed texts about the work ahead, or they can create their own itinerary in the museum. On the other hand, the institution has access to data on space occupancy flows , so it can optimize consumption and costs and shape potential promotional strategies.
iGuzzini : pioneers in lighting technology Since its founding in Recanati in 1959, the company has grown to become an international group in the architectural lighting industry, supervising projects at the highest level. In the 1970s, it was the company that introduced lighting design in Italy, which from a simple decorative element, now becomes a technical and innovative element, and it was iGuzzini that organized the first Italian conference for lighting design specialists. Commitment to training in lighting technology continued over the next decade with seminars and training courses that spread the culture of light around the world. At the same time, the company began its first experiments in the field of biodynamic light, in collaboration with the Troy Lighting Research Center in New York: the first experimental prototype of the SIVRA (automatically adjustable lighting system) was presented in 1993 at the Museum of Science and Technology in Milan.
In the mid-1990s, the company launched a campaign that was ahead of its time: fighting light pollution, promoting the theme of energy saving. In recent years, iGuzzini's commitment has continued through the experience of Social Lightscape, a two-year program of workshops run jointly with the London School of Economics, King's College of London and the Social Light Movement to introduce sociological research into urban lighting design.
iGuzzini in great projects. architectural and artistic Bruno Gecchelin, Mario Cucinella, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Michele De Lucchi, Renzo Piano, Dean Skira, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Gae Aulenti, Jean-Marie Duthilleul: ci are just some of the big names with whom iGuzzini has collaborated over the past sixty years. iGuzzini works with international architects on ambitious projects, each of which has contributed to the evolution of the lighting sector: for iGuzzini, the Made in Italy project is a combination of formal research and technological innovation.
"Our work with designers and architects is performed by synergy, participation, to share design knowledge and interconnectivity. We have always firmly believed in this collaboration, which today is our recognition. "
As early as 1987, iGuzzini contributed to the Renzo Piano project for Lingotto in Turin with a series of ad hoc lighting systems, approximately 10 years later, he inaugurated the season of cooperation with museums, and with it a program of promotion and enrichment of cultural heritage in Italy and around the world: iGuzzini signed a new lighting system for the Borghese Gallery in Rome, as well as Le Perroquet Renzo Piano lamps for the Center Pompidou in Paris. Michele De Lucchi's design for the Venaria Reale market uses a precise lighting system thanks to an innovative optical beam: the street lamp, named La Venaria from the place it was designed for, consists of an irregular light beam. of LED lights for a very special light effect.
Another interesting project is the new lighting system designed specifically for Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper, it can be considered a real intervention of the "perceptual restaurant", thanks to which the number of visitors who have access has increased at the same time and thus they can enjoy this priceless work of art under proper lighting.