Its headquarters are based in Italy (Recanati) over an area of 150,000 sqm, including offices, production departments and logistic area. It has 15 European and non-European subsidiary companies as well as exclusive distributors all over the world. Its consolidated turnover in 2008 is approximately €216,000,000 and it has more than 1,200 employees.

It is led by Adolfo Guzzini, President and Antonio Santi, CEO, and is part of the Fimag family-run holding company together with Teuco Guzzini (sanitary units, bathroom furniture) and F.lli Guzzini (design household accessories). These three companies make up the Guzzini Group, one of the most significant examples of the Italian entrepreneurial history, characterised by constant dynamism, and innovation at 360°: from services to clients and marketing tools, from communication to distribution networks.

Its activity is characterised by the designing of an efficient use of the light: this translates not only into the production of innovative high-performance luminaires designed by major international architects and designers but also in its ability to combine them into lighting systems suitable for and able to blend into the most diverse architectures.

Since iGuzzini is well aware that better light quality improves the quality of life indoors and outdoors, it has been committed to spreading an actual culture of light for over thirty years now. This work was started in 1977 and has witnessed contributions from expert lighting designers and light-makers such as Luigi Manzoni, Van Malotki, Louis Claire, Piero Castiglioni, Tino Kwan; and it has translated into keen training initiatives for designers, architects and all the people interested in technical lighting.

Proper lighting saves electric energy, makes our towns safer, adds value to buildings and shop fronts and - last but not least - curbs light pollution.

The different application fields include urban lighting, museums, offices, commercial areas and hotels.

iGuzzini luminaires are lighting some of the most prestigious settings in the world: the Borghese Gallery Museum, Palace of Exhibitions and Aurelius' Domus in Rome, the Beaubourg in Paris, Luxor Temple in Egypt, the Hermitage Museum and Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg, the North Greenwich Transport Interchange and Heathrow Airport in London, the Mercedes Design Centre in Stuttgart, the Paul Klee Centre in Bern, the Oriental Art Center in Shanghai, Mostar Bridge, the headquarters of Il Sole 24 Ore and the new Exhibition Pole in Milan, Melbourne Airport, and the National Assembly for Wales in the UK. While some of the most important top brands are: Armani, Fendi, Porsche, Maserati, Dunhill, MaxMara,

Over the year iGuzzini has constantly invested in research as well as technological and production innovation with partners including Harvard University, M.I.T (Boston), La Sapienza (Rome), Milan Polytechnic, CNR (National Research Council), Central Institute for Restoration, and Lighting Research Center (Troy, NY).

The great attention it pays to design has led to collaborations with some of the most renowned architects and designers in the world such as Giò Ponti, Rodolfo Bonetto and Bruno Gecchelin, followed by Renzo Piano, Gae Aulenti, Piero Castiglioni and then Norman Foster, Jean-Michel Wilmotte, Mario Cucinella, Massimiliano Fuksas and Ron Arad, the designers of some of iGuzzini's most significant luminaires.

The company has received a number of awards, from Compasso d'Oro in 1989 for the Shuttle luminaire designed by Bruno Gecchelin and the one awarded in 1991 to the Guzzini Group "for having developed over time a very coherent designing and manufacturing philosophy where the culture of design has represented a common denominator and an element of distinction", to the 1998 Compasso d'Oro for the Nuvola product designed by the Piano Design Workshop.

In 1998 iGuzzini was awarded the Guggenheim Prize for its constant commitment to culture and in 2001 the Leonardo Prize for quality.

Contacts

iGuzzini illuminazione spa
62019 Recanati, Italy
Via Mariano Guzzini, 37

phone (+39) 071.75881
fax (+39) 071.7588295
video (+39) 071.7588453

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