Collection: Jacopo Foggini

Jacopo Foggini was born in Turin and currently lives and works in Milan. He explores art and design by crossing the boundaries imposed by the conventions of those disciplines. Jacopo joined the family business very early, where he discovered the versatility of methacrylate, an industrial material normally used in automotive design. His first experiments with this material date back to the early nineties, when he started using a machine of his own invention that heats the methacrylate up to 200 degrees Celsius, producing a filament that he models with his hands to create luminous shapes, monumental works, and mazes of threads in an elegant intertwining of colors.

Jacopo's first solo exhibition was held in 1997 inside the space of his longtime friend Romeo Gigli, and since then he has exhibited in more than sixty galleries and venues throughout the world. For years he has participated in the Milan International Furniture Fair, creating striking site-specific installations (Devotion in 2005, Plastic Palace in 2006, Aurora Borealis in 2007, Ofigea in 2008, (Re)fuse in 2009, Golden Fleece in 2010, Plasteroid in 2011, sYmbols and Flysch in 2012). Meanwhile, he has realized other breathtaking projects such as the Lampadario da Teatro for the Opening Ceremony of the Torino Olympic Games (2006), consisting of a large chandelier specially designed and engineered to be lifted during the performance of maestro Luciano Pavarotti, or the Matrioska Super Hero (Moscow Design Week, 2011), a 6-meter diameter reinterpretation of the matryoshka doll. He presented his latest collection of Chandeliers - the Brilli - at the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, on the occasion of the 2014 Milan Design Week. At the same event, he also presented the Gina chair, the latest iconic project developed for the renewed Italian design company Edra, with which he maintains a prolific collaboration (other notable projects for Edra include the chairs Gilda B and Ella, the armchair Alice, and the table Capriccio).

Jacopo's work also includes important installations in renovated hotels, restaurants, showrooms, and theaters, besides site-specific projects for private houses and collectors. Among them: the Nhow Hotel in Milan, the Side Hotel in Hamburg, the Grand Hotel Principi di Piemonte in Sestriere, the Riad Enija Hotel in Marrakech, the W Hotel in Saint Petersburg, the Hilton in Barcelona, the Hotel Maddalena, the Vapiano restaurants, the Bentley showroom in Milan, the Pomellato boutiques, the World Bisazza store in New York, the Fendi showrooms in Florence and China, the Etro showroom in Istanbul, and many others.