The Snaidero Idea

Design / The designers

Since 1968, they have worked in two different design studios, sometimes together, at other times in competition, thus stimulating their critical sense and adding creativity to their projects.

Specialising in office furniture, chairs and kitchens, together they have designed over 250 products for a large number of Italian companies.

http://www.lucciorlandini.com

They have participated in several editions of the Milan Triennale exhibition and some of their works belong to the design collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and the Centre National D’Art Contemporain at the Louvre in Paris.

everal products designed by Roberto Lucci and Paolo Orlandini have been selected for the Compasso D’Oro award (1979, 1981, 1984, 1987, 1989, 1991); they have received numerous international awards,including 3 “Sim-Industrial design” awards (Milan 1971, 1978); 2 Institute of Business Designers awards (New York 1982, 1986); 2 SMAU Industrial Design awards (Milan 1971, 1978), 2 Promosedia awards (Udine 1986, 1987), 3 “Industrie Forum Design Hanover” awards (1983, 1990, 1992), 1 “Gran Design” international award (Milan 1997), 2 Catas awards (Udine 1998), 1 Top Ten award (Udine 1999) and 1 Best of Neocon Gold Award (Chicago 2000).

Lucci & Orlandini have taught at the European Design Institute, the Milan Polytechnic and at many universities in Belgium, USA, Australia and South America.
In 1990, they both published the book “Product Design Models”, V.N, Reinhold, New York.

In their partnership with Snaidero, Lucci & Orlandini designed Sistema Es (2001), winner of the “Grand Prix de l’Innovation Design” at the Foire de Paris, Time (2002), winner of the Good Design Award 2003 at the Chicago Atheneum, Panoramica (2004) and Skyline (2004), winner of the Good Design Award 2004.