Davide Groppi - Palpebra table lamp

Remember the awakening, that brief magical moment, before totally opening the eyes, in which the light filters just like from a cracked hatch, making everything indistinct in the passage between sleep and wakefulness.

Federico Delrosso

Federico Delrosso, architect and designer of Biella origins, has been working internationally since 2001 in his Milan studio Federico Delrosso Architects, dealing with architecture, interior and product design.
Respectful of the natural or urban contexts and the spirit of the places, understood as energy and conscience imprinted in the memory of the spaces, Federico Delrosso conceived projects with a refined lightness characterized by a minimal-naturalist approach.
The homogeneity of the materials often left to the natural and raw aspect and the study of light, perceived as an emotional and tangible component of each project, represent the essential elements of his stylistic research and the very idea of architecture.
The latter is in fact conceived as the bearer of "a soul of its own to be sought in every detail between light and shadow to reach that delicate balance that makes it independent from those who created it, live or will live". In the field of design he designed important furniture and lighting collections for brands such as Davide Groppi and Henry Timi. The wall lamp Mima (2007, for Davide Groppi) receives the signal for the XXI Compasso d'Oro 2008 and becomes part of the permanent collection of ADI (Association for Industrial Design). The Hashi floor lamp, designed for Davide Groppi, has been selected for the ADI INDEX 2019 and
will compete for the Compasso d'Oro 2020. Hashi also won the Eccellenze della Lombardia 2019 award.

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.