Elio Vigna is the designer of Cobra, the umbrella stand in curved glass produced by FIAM.
Vigna was born in Mantua in 1950. He actively carries out the activity of contract professor of Visual Perception and Communication in the course of Industrial Design of the Department of Architecture Sciences at the Faculty of Architecture of Genoa.
Architect and designer, he also finds himself designing different exhibitions. Some of those realized are: "Public and private for via XX Settembre" and "Sosabravo: from Cuba for Genoa" in 1998 in Genoa, respectively at Palazzo dell'Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti and Palazzo San Giorgio, in this same venue also the exhibition "Giovani Immagini, in the historic center of Genoa" in 1999.
Elio Vigna is also a PhD in Analysis and Representation of the Built, co-author of "Pietre di Liguria: materiali e tecniche per l'architettura storica" and editor of the book "Centro Storico di Genova, inquietudini e incanti".