Duccio Trassinelli

Duccio Trassinelli was born in Florence in 1945 and then studied at Istituto Superiore di Disegno Industriale in his hometown, where he then remained as a teacher of Planning Methodology for some ten years. In 1966, in the Studio PENTA, he designed the car FRABAT, sports car sole piece (private collection). In 1970 he founded the STUDIO A.R.D.I.T.I., a real starting point for a group analysis of a new idea of exploitation and shapes in the world of furniture. In that period he brought about some historical projects, such as the B.T. lamp, produced by Sormani in 1972 and now permanently exhibited at MoMA in New York and Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Prismar lamp, collection Centre Pompidou and Vitra Design Museum, the Memoria armchair, awarded by Bolaffi Casa in 1973 as “month’s design” and now in Cassina Museum permanent collection; the Ponte lamp, reaching high quotations in international auctions, collection Moma, NY. During his career Trassinelli shifted within heterogeneous spaces from plants to the prefabricated buildings industry and the planning of electronic instruments, from city environment and furniture to contracts for private and public companies. Furthermore he entered several invention patents. At present Trassinelli is still working in the lighting-up technical design, an area where he was amongst the first in experimenting low-voltage.