Michele De Lucchi was born in 1951 in Ferrara and graduated in architecture in Florence. During the period of radical and experimental architecture, De Lucchi was a prominent figure in movements like Cavart, Alchymia and Memphis. He has designed lamps and furniture for the most known Italian and European companies. During the time at Olivetti, he was the Director of Design from 1992 to 2002 and he had developed experimental projects for Compaq Computers, Philips, Siemens and Vitra, where he elaborated various personal theories on the evolution of the workplace.
Michele De Lucchi designed and restored buildings in Japan for Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp. (NTT), in Germany for Deutsche Bank, in Switzerland for Novartis, and in Italy for Enel, Olivetti, Piaggio, Poste Italiane, and Telecom Italia. In 1999 he was appointed to renovate some of ENEL's (the Italian Electricity Company) power plants. For Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Bundesbahn, Enel, Poste Italine, Telecom Italia, Hera, Intesa Sanpaolo and at other Italian and foreign banks, he has collaborated to the evolution of the corporate image, introducing technical and aesthetic innovation into the working environments.
Michele De Lucchi has also taken care of numerous art and design exhibitions and has planned buildings for museums as Triennale di Milano, Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma and Neues Museum Berlin. In the previous years he has developed many architectural projects for private and public client in Georgia.
His professional work has always gone side-by-side with a personal exploration of architecture, design, technology and crafts. In 1990 he founded Produzione Privata, a small-scale company which Michele De Lucchi designs products that are made using artisan techniques and crafts. Since 2004 he has been sculpturing little wooden houses with the chain saw to create the essentiality of the architectural style. His Studio, aMDL S.r.l., has its offices in Milan and Rome.
In 2003, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris has acquired a considerable number of Michele De Lucchi’s works. The selected products are now exhibited in the most important design Museums in Europe, United States and Japan.
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