Azucena - Lampada Poltrona lamp

It’s an adjustable spotlight attached to a length of leather and weighted at either end to ensure it stays in place. The idea is taken from the finest tailors who place lead tape into their jacket hems to guarantee the perfect hang. The press-button switch is both functional and decorative and archetypal in its own right. In common with many of his designs, Caccia Dominioni placed a premium on mobility - the lamp can easily be moved from one room to the next, more of an accessory than a piece of furniture. The idea came to Caccia Dominioni on seeing and deciding to improve on an “ugly but functional” lamp belonging to his sister-in-law. What we have is a fusion of objet trouvé and home-made, so typical of twentieth century contemporary art. With a masterly touch these separate objects have been merged to form a delightful piece of Italian craftsmanship. As Luigi Caccia Dominioni himself declared - the lamp is “elegant of course, efficient obviously but most of all eccentric”.

Luigi Caccia Dominioni

Luigi Caccia Dominioni was born in Milan on 7 December 1913, in the family home in Piazza Sant'Ambrogio, a house that he rebuilt after the destruction in the bombing of August 1943.

He completed the entire cycle of studies, up to the Liceo classico, at the Istituto Leone XIII in Milan, run by the Jesuits. In 1931 he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture at the Regio Istituto Tecnico Superiore (future Politecnico di Milano). During his university studies he met Livio and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Cesare Cattaneo, Giannino Bernasconi - the future BBPR - and his teachers were Luigi Moretti and Piero Portaluppi.  He graduated in 1936 and obtained a professional qualification in Venice. In 1937, with the brothers Livio and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, he opened a professional studio: together with them he participated in various competitions, obtaining brilliant results.  The first realization in the field of industrial design, together with them, dates back to 1938 and concerns some models of radio equipment for Phonola, later improved and presented in 1940 at the VII Triennale di Milano; At the Triennale, the three architects also stand out for the setting up of exhibitions and the production of other design objects, such as Miracoli cutlery. His professional activity ranges from design to architecture and takes place mainly in Milan.

Azucena

In 1947 Luigi Caccia Dominioni , Ignazio Gardella and Corrado Corradi Dell'Acqua founded the company. The Italian brand Azucena has always stood out for its collections that combine formal elegance, discreet luxury, pure and sharp aesthetics and a very high craftsmanship.

Azucena (named after the gypsy of the play Il Trovatore) was created to collect furniture projects for the furnishing of the buildings they designed.

A series of iconic pieces that revive, characterized by the union of different materials, but always refined, and the reinterpretation of traditional stylistic forms.

In 2018 he joined B&B Italia, which wanted to preserve and revive him, in an active vision of Italian heritage. The historic brand returns to the market with a series of "modern classics" designed by architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni from the late 1940s.

Chairs, sofas, tables and lamps that have written the history of Made in Italy design and that return today as a testimony of class and quality.