--- title: "Achille Castiglioni" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/achille-castiglioni" language: "en" type: "designer" description: "Individual designer items from Achille Castiglioni ✓ Wide range of products & designs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2001-05-01T00:00:00+02:00" modified: "2026-04-26T17:25:13+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Prof. Achille Castiglioni Milano, Italy - [Biography](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/achille-castiglioni) - [Products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/achille-castiglioni) - [Manufacturer](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/achille-castiglioni/manufacturer) - [Articles](https://www.stylepark.com/en/designer/achille-castiglioni/contributions) - [Website](http://www.achillecastiglioni.it) Address: ## Achille Castiglioni Studio Museum Achille Castiglioni Piazza Castello, 27 20121 Milano Italy T: 02 805.3606 F: 02 805.3623 [www.achillecastiglioni.it](http://www.achillecastiglioni.it) Products by Achille Castiglioni [![Taccia matte white](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/Taccia-white-Small_06.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/taccia-matte-white) [FLOS Taccia matte white](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/taccia-matte-white) [![TARAXACUM 1 / TARAXACUM 2](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/taraxacum-suspension-1-a-pg-castiglioni-flos-F7401009-product-still-life-big.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/taraxacum-1-taraxacum-2) [FLOS TARAXACUM 1 / TARAXACUM 2](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/taraxacum-1-taraxacum-2) [![Arco K](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/M01_FLOS_ARCO_60.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/arco-k) [FLOS Arco K](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/arco-k) [![Parentesi 50](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/parentesi-suspension-castiglioni-manzu-flos-F5601074-product-still-life-big_2021-10-19-094746_vvsv.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/parentesi-50) [FLOS Parentesi 50](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/parentesi-50) [![H 310 F](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/f/fusital/produkte/h-310-f/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/h-310-f-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/fusital/h-310-f) [Fusital H 310 F](https://www.stylepark.com/en/fusital/h-310-f) [![H 310 R8](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/f/fusital/produkte/h-310-r8/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/h-310-r8-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/fusital/h-310-r8) [Fusital H 310 R8](https://www.stylepark.com/en/fusital/h-310-r8) [![Lampadina](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/f/flos/produkte/lampadina/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/lampadina-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/lampadina) [FLOS Lampadina](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/lampadina) [![Arco](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/ARCO-LED-on.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/arco) [FLOS Arco](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/arco) [![Gatto piccolo Table lamp](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/f/flos/produkte/gatto-piccolo-table-lamp/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/gatto-piccolo-table-lamp-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/gatto-piccolo-table-lamp) [FLOS Gatto piccolo Table lamp](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/gatto-piccolo-table-lamp) [![Viscontea](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/VISCONTEA.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/viscontea) [FLOS Viscontea](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/viscontea) [![Gatto](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/GATTO.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/gatto-table-lamp) [FLOS Gatto](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/gatto-table-lamp) [![Toio](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/TOIO_bianca.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/toio) [FLOS Toio](https://www.stylepark.com/en/flos/toio) [All products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/designer/achille-castiglioni) Biography Born in Milan in 1918, he graduated in Architecture in 1944.Since 1940 he had dedicated himself to experimenting on industrial products with his brothers Livio ((1911-1979) and Pier Giacomo (1913-1968). Their interests were directed towards Urban Planning, Architecture and Design; they performed analysis and research on new forms, techniques and materials, aimed at developing a process of "integral design".In 1969, he was nominated Professor of “Artistic Industrial Design”; he chaired the Faculty of Architecture in Turin until 1980 and taught in Milan until 1993 as Professor of “Industrial Design” at the Polytechnic of Milan.In 1956 he was one of the founders of ADI (Association for Design Industry).MoMA’s permanent collection in New York hosts 14 of his works.Other works may be found in the following museums:Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Kunstgewerbe Museum in Zurich, Staatliches Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Munich, Design Museum in Prato, Uneleckoprumyslove Museum in Prague, Israel Museum in Jerusalem, The Denver Art Museum, Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, Angewandte Kunst Museum in Hamburg and Koln.He earned nine “Compasso d’Oro” awards:- “Compasso d’Oro” 1955 (Luminator floor lamp)- “Compasso d’Oro” 1960 (T 12 Palini chair)- “Compasso d’Oro” 1962 (Pitagora espresso machine)- “Compasso d’Oro” 1964 (Spinamatic beer spigot)- “Compasso d’Oro” 1967 (translator’s earphones)- “Compasso d’Oro” 1979 (Parentesi lamp)- “Compasso d’Oro” 1979 (Omsa hospital bed)- “Compasso d’Oro” 1984 (Dry cutlery)- “Compasso d’Oro” 1989 (special mention to a profession dedicated to industrial design on the following grounds ”For he elevated industrial design, by means of his unreplaceable experience, to the highest levels of culture”).Between 1984 and 1986 the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte of Wien hosted his itinerant “personal” exhibition, which was then successfully repeated at the Akademie der Kunst in Berlin, at the Triennale in Milan, at the Kunstgewerbe Museum in Zurich, at the Haags Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris1985 - Honorary Member of the "Committee of Advisors" at Art Center College of Design (Pasadena, California and Montreaux, Switzerland).1986 - Honorary Member of the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry, Royal Society of Art (London).1987 - Honorary Degree from the Royal College of Art (London).1993 - Annual award from "The Chartered Society of Designers" (London).1994 - "Primavera del Design" Award from the Department of Culture (Catalonia).1995 - "Art sur Table" Award from the Conseil National des Art Culinaire (Paris).1996 - "IF Design Wettbewerb" Award from Industrie Forum Design (Hanover).1996 - "Longevity-Langlebigkeit" Award from Design Center (Stuttgart).1999 - "Domus/INARCH 1998” Award from INARCH.1999 - "Targa d´Oro Unione Italiana per il Disegno" Award from the Faculty of Architecture of Genoa.1999 - Wins the Enel "Sostegni per l´Ambiente" competition along with Michele De Lucchi.2001 - Industrial Design Honoris Causa Degree from the Polytechnic of Milan.In 1995 on the occasion of the award “Primavera del Design”, his “personal” exhibition “A la Castiglioni” was organized in Barcelona and then again at the Furniture Fair in Milan, at the Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in Bergamo, in 1997 at the Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein, at the MoMA in New York, in 1998 at the Living Design Center Ozone in Tokyo, at the Art Museum in Niitsu and at the De Beyerd Museum in Breda.Very many objects designed by Achille Castiglioni have been produced by remarkable companies such as: Aerotecnica Italiana, Alessi, Aura, Brionvega, Bernini, B&B Italia, BBB Bonacina, Cedit, Cimbali, Danese, Driade, Feg, Flos, Fusital, Cassina, Gavina, Ideal Standard, Italtel, Il Coccio Umidificatori, Interflex, Lancia Auto, Longoni, Marcatrè, Moroso, Nagano, Olivetti Synthesis, Omsa, Ortotecnica, Phonola Radio, Poltrona Frau, Poggi, Phoebus Alter, Perani Fonderie, Rem, San Giorgio elettrodomestici, Teorema, Kartell, Up & Up, VLM, Zanotta.His professional activities spanned throughout the fields of Architecture and Urban Planning; he earned international recognitions for his projects applied to serial production in the fields of lighting fixtures and furniture as well as for his breathtaking installations realized around the world.Achille Castiglioni died in Milan on December 2, 2002 Articles about Achille Castiglioni [ARCHITECTURE Two in One 8/29/2022 In Berlin's West, the architecture office Coordination has converted two attic flats into an elegant penthouse. Now the Wilhelminian architecture serves as a colourful backdrop for the art.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/architectural-office-coordination-penthouse-berlin-stylepark) [ARCHITECTURE More than a café 4/29/2022 Robert Stadler, an Austrian whose adopted home is Paris, has enriched the tradition-steeped KWM Krefeld with a coffee house that thoroughly lives up to the famed Viennese model. As an “gesamtkunstwerk”, it carries the spirit of productively combining art, craft, and industry forward into the Modern Age and playfully melds design and life, tradition and innovation.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/kwm-krefeld-robert-stadler-coffee-house) [INTERVIEWS Three questions to Marco Dessí 4/20/2022 Industrial and product designer Marco Dessí was born in the Italian city of Merano in the South Tyrolean Alps and lives in Vienna. He tells us in an interview why design is an interactive process for him and it is worthwhile to reinterpret the work of the old masters.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/marco-dessi-vienna-design-3-questions) [INTERVIEWS Three questions to Luca Nichetto 12/8/2021 After analyzing the portfolio of the luminaire manufacturer Studio Italia Design, multidisciplinary designer Luca Nichetto is now repositioning it as Lodes and adapting his own creations.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/luca-nichetto-lodes-light-croma-easy-peasy) [DESIGN FLOS 2021: PARENTESI 50 10/11/2021 For the 50th anniversary of the classic "Parentesi" luminaire, FLOS presents a new edition in Turquoise and Orange Signal.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/flos-2021-parentesi50) [HOTEL Microcosm in Tokyo 8/24/2020 For the boutique hotel K5 Tokyo, the Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has merged city and nature in restructuring a former bank building in Nihonbashi-Kabutocho. The result is microcosm full of ambiguities.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/studio-claesson-koivisto-rune-tokyo-k5) [SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 A touch of new objectivity 5/10/2018 Quo vadis, furniture design? This year’s Salone del Mobile reveals a few ideas. An analysis in our glance back at the fair.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/review-salone-del-mobile-2018) [IMM COLOGNE 2018 Will you join me in everyday life? 1/23/2018 "Kommst Du mit in den Alltag?" ("Will you join me in everyday life?") The band Blumfeld asked that question back in 1999. And it could also be the motto of imm cologne 2018: cheerful normality rather than overwrought sensationalism. Our recapitulation.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/recap-imm-cologne-2018) [FAIRS & EVENTS Mega-mood machines 3/22/2016 Light + Building clearly showed that light is becoming ever more digital and offers tools for emotions of all kinds. Among the mass of novelties, you could notice that good light is getting ever more rare.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/mega-mood-machines) [DESIGN Radiofonografo: Brionvega RR126 9/9/2015 Be it rock or opera, the living-room revolution has a name: „RR126". In the 1960s, no one matched Brionvega’s consistent emphasis on design for radios, TVs and hi-fi equipment.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/radiofonografo-brionvega-rr126) [FAIRS & EVENTS Seeing the light 10/13/2013 Let there be light! “Vitra Design Museum” is exploring different shades of lighting design with “Lightopia”, its major exhibition currently on show in Weil am Rhein.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/seeing-the-light) [MAGAZINE To light or to illuminate – that is the question 4/24/2013 For quite some time, manufacturers of decorative luminaires were hard hit by the innovation of LEDs. What to do with their traditional designs that were built around lamps and spots? They have since overcome the future shock and the industry is now fielding new products in all shapes and sizes.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/to-light-or-to-illuminate-that-is-the-question) [MAGAZINE Designers don't drink from paper cups 8/7/2008 Achille Castiglioni, Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Richard Sapper talk in these short "Design Interviews", which are now out on DVD, about their paths to what was still, at that time, a new discipline, about their own development and careers, about their search for design solutions, which, for the most part, still owed greater allegiance to society than to industry.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/designers-dont-drink-from-paper-cups) [MAGAZINE A salute to two seats: MEZZADRO and SELLA turn 50 10/17/2007 What is the likely result if you have a lot of imagination, a strong feeling for shapes- and one day come across a bicycle saddle and some rusty handlebars among your old things? In this case, Picasso's Bull's Head and the story of Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglionis seat SELLA might have taken a similar course.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-salute-to-two-seats-mezzadro-and-sella-turn-50) [DESIGN Achille - der Lichtmagier 6/1/2007 NASA-Experimente und andere Lichtspiele mit Achille Castiglioni](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/achille-der-lichtmagier)