Collection: Designers: Michele De Lucchi

Michele De Lucchi (born 1951, in Ferrara, Italy) is an Italian designer and architect. In 1975, he graduated with a degree in architecture from the faculty of architecture at Università degli Studi di Firenze (Florence University), where he also worked as an assistant lecturer with Adolfo Natalini, a member of Superstudio from 1975 until 1977. During the period of radical and experimental architecture of the late 1970s and the 1980s, he participated in the most prominent Italian design movements of the time: the design collectives Cavart and Studio Alchimia, and was a co-founder of the Memphis Group–the group of young architects and designers led by Ettore Sottsass with whom he collaborated from 1981 until 1987. The designs of De Lucchi furniture, lamps, and objects were manufactured in collaboration with many of the leading Italian and European furniture manufacturers, such as Artemide, Alias, Unifor, and Alessi.

In 1978, Michele De Lucchi moved to Milan, where he worked for Kartell in the Centrokappa studio, and while in Milan, he got to know Ettore Sottsass. It was through his close contact with Sottsass that Michele joined the atelier Alchimia designers and created several nonconforming designs, such as the 1978 Sinerpica table lamp and the 1979 Sinvola lamp.