Minibox Table
Decorative Table Lamp
Designed by Gae Aulenti & Piero Castiglioni
1981
The table-top Minibox is comprised of a metal body, a comfortable handle and an irreverent luminous eye, which recalls the aesthetics of a miners’ lamp. The magnetic attachment of the head allows the light to be directed, rendering it suitable for any location, even the most unexpected.
Gae Aulenti
Gaetana Aulenti, born in Northern Italy in 1927, and moved to Milan at an early age to study Architecture at the renowned Milan Polythechnic University, where she defied tradition by being the only one of two women who graduated in her class. As many of her peers, she started her career in the editorial world by working with the design magazine Casabella, immersed in the flourishing Milanese culture and in the Neoliberty movement, distancing herself from the Rationalism tendency of the war period.
Piero Castiglioni
Piero Castiglioni (b. 1944) is an Italian architect specialized in lighting design. Together with his father Livio, Piero Castiglioni developed lighting engineering projects for many public and private surroundings, and in the 1980s, he collaborated with the Italian architect Gae Aulenti. Some of his most significant lighting projects include the Pompidou Centre and the Orsay Museum in Paris.
