DAVIDE GROPPI

DAVIDE GROPPI

  • Since

    1988

  • DISTINGUISHING features

    Groppi designs lamps that are simple, light and unique. The company is always in search of the boundary between light and dark and likes to think of its lamps as an alphabet with which it writes stories.

  • website

    www.davidegroppi.com

About

Davide Groppi has always stood out for his interest in technology and innovation, care for design, humanistic approach to projects, international attitude, and awareness of the social aspects of the business. In 2014 on the occasion of the 23rd edition of Compasso d’Oro ADI 2014 Davide Groppi was awarded two prizes for his SAMPEI and NULLA lights. The factory headquarter is in Piacenza, where Groppi works with a select group of people and where the first “Spazio Esperienze” was opened in 2012 for architects and those interested in the production and philosophy of the company. Calabrese was born in Brindisi and now lives and works in Pescara. He is a doctor, professor and researcher 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 Francisco, College of Environmental and Landscape Design at University of California, Berkeley.

Awards

Sampei
Sampei

Sampei

  • Lighting
  • 2012
  • Davide GROPPI & Enzo CALABRESE