Designer Profile – Marco Ferreri
September 3rd, 2009
Marco Ferreri is an amazing and innovative Italian designer who was born in Imperia Italy, graduated from the Politecnico of Milan in 1981. Ferreri, like many Italian designers, studied architecture originally, but now designs everything from urban planning projects to furniture. In his career he has been noted for his furniture designs such as the Is Stool which is part of a collection of MoMA.
One of his more recent works is an awe-inspiring light installation, The Puraluce, which was designed for the high end lighting manufacturer Studio Italia Designs and is one of our favorites. The molded-plastic Puraluce light debuted inside Milan’s Basilica of San Lorenzo Maggiore, in the chapel of Saint Aquilino. The larger-than-life modern light installation was composed of a steel frame and twelve beams, from which fine strips of white nylon cascade to feature a total of 576 gleaming bulbs. The perfect synthesis for a work of art, the installation evoked the sterile power of the luminous element, the totality of absolute glare, and the abstraction of its impossible solidity.
