Davide Groppi - Sampei 290 matt black floor lamp 3000K

A real suspended light that rests on the ground! The designers Enzo Calabrese and Davide Groppi create Sampei. A thin stem, but statically very resistant, which reaches high heights. The possible inclinations, up to 20 years, are different. The luminaire projects a pleasant overhead light that can be directed at will. An elegant and refined solution for domestic environments or public spaces. Sampei floor lamp by Davide Groppi, winner of the Compasso d'Oro Award 2014, the oldest but most authoritative worldwide design award. Awarded for its ability to be a pendant and floor lamp at the same time.

Enzo Calabrese - Davide groppi

Enzo Calabrese, architect and designer born in Brindisi, Italy, in 1961. He has his office in Pescara where he works and lives. He is PHD, researcher, and Professor in Architectural Composition at the Faculty of Architecture at University G.D'Annunzio. He was Assessor to Urban Planning, Visiting Researcher at the C.C.A.C of San Franciso, College of Environmental and Landscape Design at University of California, Berkeley.

Davide groppi. From the end of the eighties, starting from a very small laboratory in the historic center of Piacenza, he invents and produces lamps with the homonymous brand. Over time, creative and entrepreneurial independence has allowed him to develop original and recognizable projects, distributed all over the world. Projects that come from the heart and the brain, intuitions that emerge from a certain way of being and thinking, where simplicity, lightness, emotion, invention and amazement are the fundamental elements. Davide Groppi's lamps arise from the need to give shape to a need or a meaning. His inspirations are art, ready-mades, magic, the desire to make things with your hands or simply the desire to play and joke with light. For Davide Groppi, light is a wonderful opportunity to seduce and excite. Davide Groppi has always worked with a close-knit group of collaborators, with whom he shares all the ideas.

Davide Groppi

Since the late 1980s, starting from a very small workshop in Piacenza's historic center, Davide Groppi has been inventing and producing lamps under the homonymous brand. Over time, his creative and business independence allowed him to develop original and recognizable designs that are distributed worldwide. Projects coming from the heart and brain, insights emerging from a certain way of being and thinking, where simplicity, lightness, emotion, invention and wonder are the key elements. Groppi's lamps arise from the need to give shape to something that is necessary or significant. His inspirations are art, ready-made, magic, the desire to do things with his hands or simply the desire to play and have fun with light. The light, for Davide Groppi, is a wonderful opportunity to seduce and excite. Davide Groppi has always worked with a close-knit group of collaborators, with whom he shares all ideas. Over his many years of activity, he has developed projects and fitting along with several design companies including: De Padova, Boffi, Paola Lenti and Christofle. There are countless works around the world: houses, shops, museums. Significant activity in the hospitality sector. Some of the most important starred chefs have chosen Davide Groppi's light for their restaurants: Albert Adrià, Massimo Bottura, Massimiliano Alajmo, Moreno Cedroni, Carlo Cracco, Gennaro Esposito, Giancarlo Perbellini, Ciccio Sultano and many others. Davide Groppi's work has been repeatedly recognized through publications and awards. We remember the Edida Award, in 2011, for the Sampei lamp; the Design Plus Award, in 2014, for the Neuro lamp; the double XXIII ADI Compasso d'Oro, in 2014, for the Nulla and Sampei lamps; and the ADI Compasso D'Oro Mention of Honour Award for Tetatet, in 2016. The ADI Compasso d'Oro Award is considered the most historic and prestigious design award in the world. From June 2019, Sampei lights up the "Studio alla Vetrata" of the President of the Republic, as part of the "Quirinale Contemporaneo" project.