Pier Giacomo Castiglioni is one of the most influential representatives of italian design. He is the second of three Castiglioni brothers. Six of their works can be found at the Museum of Modern Art of New York and won five editions of the Compasso d’Oro Award.
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About his life
Pier Giacomo Castiglioni(april 1913 – november 1968) was an italian architect, designer and urban planner. Like his brothers, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni studied architecture atMilan Polytechnic, getting his degree in 1937. in 1938 pier giacomo and his elder brother,Livio, founded a practice in milan, which the youngest brother,Achille, joined in 1944. All three Castiglioni brothers were interested in bothtechnologyandart. Livio left the joint practice in 1952 to go his own way. His works are displayed in the most important collections, in the museums from the Moma in New York to the Triennale Design Museum in Milan.
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What are the main features of Pier Giacomo Castiglioni’s style?
In 1957 the exhibition “Colori e forme nella casa d’oggi” (Colors and Forms in Today’s Home) was mounted at the Villa Olmo in Como, whereAchilleandPier Giacomo Castiglioniannoyed specialists with their vision of amodern lifestylebecause what they showed was acolorful jumble of styles that incorporated old and new furnishings instead of uniformly styled interiors.
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Both Achille and Pier Giacomo were keenly interested in experimenting withnew materialsand techniques for industrial production. One notable example is “cocoon skin,” a material composed of sprayed polymer plastic fibers that solidified into a flexible membrane; the brothers initially saw a this substance used by the US military, and soon after acquired the patent. They used this resin applied over a steel structure to create the iconic, cocoon-like forms of theirViscontea Lamp(1960),Taraxacum Chandeliers(1960), andGato Table Lights(1960) forFlos.
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Most famous works
The younger Castiglioni brothers, Pier Giacomo and Achille, worked as a team and soon became an unstoppable design force. So much in sync was their vision that it was impossible to attribute the designs they created together to one or the other.
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在码头与brother on a wide variety of projects, his partnership with Achille was particularly successful so far as their lighting products for companies likeFLOS,Arredoluce, andArtemide是担心。
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info source:
http://blog.usa.flos.com/pier-giacomo-castiglioni-inspiring-generations-designers/
https://www.pamono.com/designers/achille-pier-giacomo-castiglioni