VENETIAN SMART LIGHTING AWARD 2023
Vitreo by Andcosta wins the VENETIAN SMART LIGHTING AWARD for the CONTRACT category
The genesis of the Vitreo product comes to life from the creation of a scenographic installation created ad hoc for the headquarters of a well-known denim company (entirely illuminated by Andcosta – a building designed by architects SAI Schleburg Generalplanungs GmbH.
To accompany customers from one floor to another a large spiral staircase is illuminated by a 12-meters “glass waterfall”, a luminous system of interconnected modules where the glass of the enormous chandelier intersects an atmospheric light and reflects chromatic effects.
Vitreo is inspired by the naturalness of organic shapes. The design focus was to place on the market a lamp steeped in its essence, where the pure beauty of the glass and the light source could intersect chromatic games. The hand-crafted transparent glass illuminates the night and is almost invisible during the day, leaving room for the particular internal finish where the natural pigments become the very signature of the object.
Andcosta lights up in color and narrates small tales of its territory starting from the lagoon of Venice where until November it will be present at the
Biennale of Architecture
Grenada National Pavilion
The new colors collection will reflect the shades of the waters that bathe Venice, the island of Murano and the lagoon architecture.
Green, yellow, blue, venetian red and gold finish are the leitmotif of a narrative inspired by
the color palette of an immortal and timeless city.
Follow the path and you will soon discover our
brand new colored collection!
Biennale di Architettura di Venezia
We are glad to be part of it!
Discover Walking on Water project
at the Grenada National Pavilion
Biennale di Architettura di Venezia 2023
Andcosta at Euroluce – Milano Design Week 2023 18-23 . 04. 2023 Hall 15 Stand 121
Andcosta presents its new collection at Euroluce, Milano Design Week 2023. The stand encapsulates the company’s technical expertise, the defining element of the new products, which arise out of the intuition and imagination of the Andcosta design team and founder Carlo Zerbaro.
The space of the stand showcase innovations of a professional and architectural nature, in the refreshed looks of iconic products such as Circus, Circus Acoustic Panel, Luna, Grue, Pin and in the new product families such as Vitreo, B-Pro modular System and the New series of Acoustic Panels that can be combined with lighting systems.
Proud to annunce that Spot-On Lighting System has been awarded!
Spot-On Lighting System design by Irene Kronenberg of Baranowitz + Kronenberg and engineering and manufacturing by AndCosta has been awarded the 2022 Prize Designs for Modern Furniture and Lighting Award from Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum
ALUCBOND talks about GANG’s Headquarter:
“a perfect match for a perfect lighting project”
Lighting plays a fundamental role in architecture.
In harmony with the project carried out by SAI Schleburg Generalplanungs GmbH, ANDCOSTA designed and realized more than 100 Luna hanging lamp in different sizes and in a special direct light version.
The fascinating noise-absorbing membrane is covered on the upper side by an ALUCOBOND® surface. The membrane of Luna, in addition to returning a particulary suggestive light helps to muffle the noise.
We chose this material for its reflectance capabilities. The ALUCOBOND® panel bounces the light without absorbing it, thus increasing the light beam, the very low UGR value ensure maximum comfort in this case at the workplace.
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Frames from Frankfurt!
Andcosta presents its new collections at Light+Building 2022 in Frankfurt.
The black and red concept of the stand summarizes our know-how interpreted through the new products, result of the intuition and thinking of the andcosta design team. In 5 different exhibition volumes, you can discover professional and architectural innovations, technology and design, in the renewed looks of iconic products such as Circus Round, Circus Acoustic Panel, Luna, Grue and new product families such as B-Pro, Daytona and Cyl. Our sales team will be happy to show you how to create good lighting by adapting it to your needs and how it can be a process simple and creative space customization using the new products B-PRO, Daytona and CYL, a range of devices that can be configured for any lighting need and with long-lasting light sources.
HALL 3.1
STAND B71
Virginia Sommadossi
creative director
Since 2001 she has been the Creative Director at Centrale Fies—the research centre for contemporary performance practices in Trentino-Alto Adige—managing image and communication, and, since 2014, she has supervised the projects and public programmes for the centre, aimed at further strengthening its practices, focus, philosophies and cultural policies. Culture is not the only field that she is involved in, but it is the instrument she uses within the processes of interweaving art and culture with disciplines ranging from tourism to fashion, from design to agriculture. She was brought up in close contact with performing arts and contemporary theatre and earned a degree in Humanities at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore with a thesis entitled “Hybrids-When Art Meets Porn-” on the power of the genital body as read through the trends of performance art, advertising and indi-porn. Since 2017, she has been in charge of communication and the visual identity of the first master’s degree course with the word “Performing Arts” in the title at IUAV [University of Venice], which, from 2021, will be split into two curricula—Performance and Gender Studies, and Choreographic Theatre Studies. Since 2020, she has been the coordinator within the creative direction of apap – FEMINIST FUTURES run by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
Andrea Maragno
fka
JOE VELLUTO
designer
Andrea Maragno in 2002, founds the design and communication studio JoeVelluto; he is the Education Manager of the Scuola Italiana Design, a division of the “Galileo Visionary District” Science Park in Padua. He has lectured on design and creativity in all the major Italian institutes and universities.
In 2002, he presents “RosAria” a disposable rosary bead made of bubble wrap, the first official project to become part of the permanent design collection of the Neue Sammlung Museum in Munich.
Some of his career highlights include: in 2005, presentation of the book “Salefino: nuovi sapori dal design italiano” [Salefino: new tastes from Italian design], publisher – Abitare Segesta; in 2008, the project “Saver” by Coroitalia was mentioned in the ADI Design Index. In November of the same year, he presents the exhibition/manifesto “UseLess Is More” – the first interpretation of the “Adesign” concept, from which the book distributed by Corraini takes its name.
In 2011 he presents “FunCoolDesign”, a solo exhibition curated by Oliviero Toscani at the Triennale Design Museum – Milan, Electa catalogue.
In 2014 he exhibits the Amen/Lumen project at the MARS gallery in Milan with the participation of Maestro Alessandro Mendini and curated by Beppe Finessi.
He has been part of the Fabrica scientific committee, the Benetton group’s communication research centre directed by Oliviero Toscani.
He is the author of the book “Estetica della Meditazione” [Aesthetics of Meditation], published by RCS – Corriere della Sera, 2021.
He is a Zen monk under the aegis of Master Tetsugen Serra, and co-manager for the OraZen Temple in Padua.
Andrea Maffei’s story begins with a trip to Japan where he went to work with the architect Arata Isozaki. A collaboration that inspired both professionally. Once he returned from Japan, he founded the Andrea Maffei Architects studio, which, among many other jobs, handles the development and planning of projects where he is co-author with Isozaki. The approach that characterises the genesis and development of his work concentrates on interpreting the client’s needs through a type of design that makes the best use of the context in which the structure will be located.
He is not interested in creating a form so it may be filled with functions; on the contrary, the core of the project is precisely these functions or, in the case of redevelopment of existing structures, it is looking at the history that they possess to identify the meaning they may have for today.
Maffei has completed major projects and had considerable experience in the Asian and Middle Eastern cultural context, including his role as project leader for Sheikh Al-Thani’s Al Wabrah villa in Doha, Qatar (1999-2001) and later for the project to expand the Qatar History Museum.
Among his most famous projects, he designed, with Isozaki, the Allianz Tower in Milan’s CityLife complex which at 242 metres high is now the tallest skyscraper in Italy. “Conceived as a skyscraper without end, a sort of endless tower” for which the aspiration is “maximum verticality and upward tension, without the limit of having to choose a complete and finished form, rather it applies the concept of a modular system that can be repeated infinitely without interruption”.
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Giulia Brazzale is a producer, director, screenwriter and editor.
A psychology graduate, she makes her debut with a short film in 2002 that wins numerous awards throughout Italy. In 2003 she founds a production company: Esperimentocinema Srl. Among her numerous films there are two feature films: Ritual – a story of psychomagic (with Alejandro Jodorowsky) and The Awful Wars (Le Guerre Horrende), which she screen writes, directs and edits. Her films have been distributed to cinemas throughout Italy, selected by various film festivals, won awards, sold abroad and are visible in online streaming on the most renowned on-demand platforms.
In the world of entertainment her name is synonymous with style and creativity. She has a completely original approach in her choice of garments and accessories, always putting the needs of the artist who will wear them first, to create an enduring visual identity that resonates with the project through visual elements. Entertainment, rock music and cinema are just a few of the fields she navigates with exceptional professionalism; from stage top to bottom, she uses her cultured vision to balance the latest trends, fashion history, art, photography and design. These are the precious ingredients used by Lucia, the stylist who has used a fusion of the arts to create her unique signature.
Main clients: Ligabue, Subsonica, Elisa, Emma Marrone, Marracash, Gue Pequeno, Pooh (50th anniversary reunion), Noys Narcos, Francesco Renga, Nek, Fiorella Mannoia, Noemi
He is Federico Poggipollini and is undoubtedly one of the
best known and most loved guitarists in the universe of Italian Rock music.
Capitan Fede has been dominating stages all over the world
for over twenty years with his overwhelming energy,
which draws the audience along with him into a cosmic journey.
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