ABOUT Elio Martinelli & Emiliana Martinelli
Elio Martinelli
Elio Martinelli was born on 19 November 1922. After spending his childhood and adolescence in Lucca with the friends who would eventually become his lifelong friends, he pursued set design studies in Florence, where he eventually graduated.
He started working with a Lucca-based company to create interiors for public spaces. He started designing and making his own lamps for his projects because he was dissatisfied with the types of lighting fixtures that were readily accessible at the time (it was just after World War II). In a basement in Piazza Bernardini in Lucca, which was only accessible by a trapdoor and a stairway, and where the few tools required for a tiny production were installed with difficulty, Martinelli Luce was created. Elio referred to it as a 'laboratory'. Many of his concepts were formed in this place.
Elio Martinelli created a lot of lights during his career and learned new methods for molding methacrylate to create some of them. The most iconic lights of his manufacture were created specifically in plastic during the 1960s, a time when inventive and ground-breaking plastic materials first began to appear.
Attention to technology and novelty has always characterised Elio Martinelli's interest, not only in the materials in which the lamps were made, but also in the use of new light sources.Elio Martinelli passed away on 21 October 2004.
Emiliana Martinelli
He started working with a Lucca-based company to create interiors for public spaces. He started designing and making his own lamps for his projects because he was dissatisfied with the types of lighting fixtures that were readily accessible at the time (it was just after World War II). In a basement in Piazza Bernardini in Lucca, which was only accessible by a trapdoor and a stairway, and where the few tools required for a tiny production were installed with difficulty, Martinelli Luce was created. Elio referred to it as a 'laboratory'. Many of his concepts were formed in this place.
Elio Martinelli created a lot of lights during his career and learned new methods for molding methacrylate to create some of them. The most iconic lights of his manufacture were created specifically in plastic during the 1960s, a time when inventive and ground-breaking plastic materials first began to appear.
Attention to technology and novelty has always characterised Elio Martinelli's interest, not only in the materials in which the lamps were made, but also in the use of new light sources.Elio Martinelli passed away on 21 October 2004.
Emiliana Martinelli
Her favourite hobbies are photography, graphics, and painting. She always carries a notebook and pencil with her to draw and capture the fleeting moment of an expression, a shadow, or an effect that sparks her imagination.
Emiliana Martinelli studied ceramics at the Art Institute of Lucca and industrial design at the ISIA in Florence before graduating in architecture. After finishing her studies, she immediately joined the family business, Martinelli Luce. This is how Emiliana's design career began.
A long collaboration with her father, Elio, with whom she created the products that have distinguished her production over time. Emiliana is the president of Martinelli Luce and serves in a variety of roles within the company, including entrepreneur, designer, and art director. She manages the company's exhibition stands and attends the most important industry events in Italy and abroad. She participates in training events for academies, industrial design institutes, and professional orders across the country.
Many of the lamps she has designed for domestic and contract environments have received significant international recognition. Emiliana has collaborated with architects such as Gae Aulenti, Sergio Asti, Paolo Orlandini, and Marc Sadler, and she continues to work with prominent Italian and foreign designers. Her enthusiasm and knowledge of design have also led her to devote herself to young designers in order to pass on her passion for 'designing'. This has allowed her to discover new talents and form collaborations that have resulted in the development and engineering of numerous projects that have won awards such as the ADI Design Index, the Compasso d'Oro, iF Product Design, the ADI Innovation Award, and many others.
Emiliana has a strong personality, is imaginative, enterprising, creative, and curious. She enjoys nature and geometry, round shapes, technology, and research. She enjoys manual skills, which she expresses through the use of paper and other materials to create lamps and other objects, as well as participating in various competitions. Finally, in the field of light, he curates light installations for a variety of occasions.
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