Marco Zanuso

Marco Zanuso, an Italian architect and designer, studied architecture from 1935 until 1939 at Milan Polytechnic. From 1945 Marco Zanuso had a practice in Milan, and worked as an architect, urban planner and designer. Zanuso is regarded as a leading light in postwar Italian design. From 1958 until 1977, the German designer Richard Sapper worked in Zanuso's practice and the two collaborated on a great many extremely imaginative and original designs for furniture, lamps, and electrical appliances. In 1956 Marco Zanuso co-founded the Associazione per il Disegno Industriale (ADI), of which he was president from 1966 until 1969. Among Marco Zanuso's most important projects is the table lamp Zanuso 275, designed in 1965 for Oluce. He died in Milan in 2001.