Foscarini imagines, develops and produces decorative lamps: night and day, whether they’re on or off, they seduce, surprise and inspire.
Foscarini lights are conceived as design objects that transform spaces: we bring beauty, we stir emotions.
Foscarini designs with an independence from any production constraints, which translates into freedom of ideas.
The company’s 35 years of collaborations with international designers and mastery of lighting resulted in a long list of design icons integrated into domestic or collective environments globally. One constant through our history has been our rigor and passion for each project.
THE FOSCARINI BRAND VALUES
Freedom
The absence of constraints - in production, technologies, or on the supply-side - makes us independent from mental constraints.
Project
Our heritage is not based on the production potential of our ideas, but the ability to create them. Our products are a dialogue between a concept and a form.
Passion
We get to the mind through the heart. The passion that we inspire is that which we ourselves experience for our products and the projects from which they originate.
Innovation
We are never satisfied with "easy" solutions, or with the first idea at our fingertips. We believe the best is always further away.
Charisma
Our lamps are an expression of a coherent vision that guides our creative, aesthetic, and moral instincts. We do not vegetate in neutrality, we take positions.
Poetry
Like the poet, we manipulate material to translate a project into a product. With art, we share a creative language and attitude toward ideas.
An Italian Spirit
Wherever we are in the world, we bring with us a unique perspective engrained in Italy's culture: we prioritize mastery, craftsmanship and most mportantly, our design vision.
Create Light
This sentence that expresses the essence of Foscarini is made up of two words that represent worlds apart, when separated, and a powerful vision when reunited: the world of creating, of shaping the material; and the world of light, of vision, of thought.
For us, production is always the point of arrival within the design process. And creating light is none other than a form, a concrete object – the lamp – illuminating meanings.
History.
1981
Foscarini is founded on the island of Murano (Venice). It creates lighting systems for the contract sector.
1983
The first catalogue collection of design lamps: the company opens to new markets and distribution channels.
1985
First collaboration with external designers: Adam Tihany and Joseph Mancini for WASSILY OFF THE WALL.
1988
Carlo Urbinati and Alessandro Vecchiato, who enter the firm as designers, become its new owners.
1990
Rodolfo Dordoni designs LUMIERE, the first major Foscarini success.
1992
ORBITAL by Ferruccio Laviani is the first lamp produced by Foscarini in industrial glass.
1993
HAVANA by Jozeph Forakis introduces the first material other than glass: polyethylene.
1994
Blown glass is no longer the preferred material: Foscarini adapts to this change, moving to Marcon, on the mainland.
1996
The company is one of the first in its sector to qualify for UNI EN ISO 9001 certification.
2000
Two years of research and a new material – a blend of fibreglass and carbon fibre or Kevlar® – for MITE and TITE by Marc Sadler.
2001
The MITE and TITE lamps receive the Compasso d’Oro award for “decisive technological innovation”.
2002
The magazine “Lux” begins, as Foscarini’s first publishing experience.
2003
Celebration of 20 years since the first collection, with the opening of a new headquarters, also in Marcon.
2005
CABOCHE by Patricia Urquiola and Eliana Gerotto is the start of a period of successful creations.
2006
TWIGGY by Marc Sadler.
2007
GREGG by L+R Palomba.
2008
TRESS by Marc Sadler. Foscarini becomes an official sponsor of the Venice Biennale: a role that continues for 7 years.
2009
LE SOLEIL by Vicente Garcia Jimenez. Licensing agreement with Diesel for the development and marketing of the collection Diesel Living with Foscarini.
2010
Publication begins of “INVENTARIO – Tutto è progetto” directed by Beppe Finessi, a new publishing adventure, halfway between a book and a magazine.
2011
Honourable Mention ADI XXII for the installation Infinity. Start of collaboration between Inventario and Museo Poldi Pezzoli.
2012
UNI EN ISO 14001 Environmental Quality Certification.
2013
Spazio Brera in Milan and Spazio Soho in New York become the two new channels of the Foscarini identity.
2014
Compasso d’Oro ADI XXIII award for “Inventario”. Honourable Mention ADI XXIII for APLOMB, BEHIVE, BINIC, COLIBRÌ, MAGNETO. Carlo Urbinati becomes President and Sole Administrator of Foscarini.
2016
“Anni Luce” installation at Triennale di Milano, to celebrate 25 years of LUMIÈRE by Rodolfo Dordoni.
2017
Presentation of “FARE LUCE”, the book edited by Beppe Finessi: an exploration of the world of light from new angles.
2018
“The Light Bulb Series” a signature collection designed by James Wines.
2020
Foscarini presents VITE: an updated viewpoint, an evolution in communication that makes people the central focus.