Nanda Vigo

Born in Milan in 1936, Nanda Vigo bases her projects on the concept of chronotopography, according to which the spatial-temporal perception of a space is modified by the movements of light and by reflecting surfaces that create illusory perspectives. Her mirrored furniture and luminous objects are never conceived as autonomous, but they are specially-made to dictate the character of an interior. After graduating from the art school in Milan, she studied architecture in Lausanne and spent a period of time in San Francisco. When she returned to Milan, she collaborated with Lucio Fontana, with whom she curated the setting up of the 1964 Triennale exhibition. Fontana is, along with Gio Ponti and Piero Manzoni (who was her partner), a key figure in the development of Vigo’s work. Her career reached its peak in Milan at the turn of the '60s and '70s, a period in which architecture and art established symbiotic relationships and interesting collaborations. From the spatial researches of Fontana and Castellani to kinetic art, Vigo treasured different artistic experimentations by focusing on the integration of disciplines in her work

Meet the designers

Gio Ponti

Piero Fornasetti

Fratelli Castiglioni

Joe Colombo

Nanda Vigo

Ettore Sottsass

Marco Zanuso

Luigi Caccia Dominioni

Ico Parisi

Charles & Ray Eames

Gae Aulenti

Pietro Chiesa

Vico Magistretti

Giotto Stoppino

Tobia Scarpa

Carlo Nason

Marcello Cuneo

Vittorio Dassi

Paolo Buffa

Max Ingrand

Gastone Rinaldi

Pia Guidetti Crippa

Gaetano Pesce

Richard Sapper

Ingo Maurer

Gabriella Crespi

Paul McCobb

Paul Tuttle

Nendo

Alvaro Siza

Carl Jacob Jucker

Ernesto Basile

Sergio Mazza

Osvaldo Borsani

Oscar Torlasco

Le Corbusier

Willy Rizzo

Gaetano Sciolari

Carlo De Carli

Angelo Lelli

Gino Sarfatti

Marcel Breuer

Carlo Scarpa

Massimo & Lella Vignelli

Claudio Salocchi

Toni Zuccheri

Aldo Tura

Verner Panton

Giancarlo Piretti

Gianfranco Frattini

Guglielmo Ulrich

Franco Albini

Philippe Starck

Angelo Mangiarotti

Enzo Mari

Tito Agnoli

Kazuide Takahama

Eero Saarinen

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Carlo Ratti

Alessandro Mendini

Mario Bellini

Cleto Munari

Carlo Mollino

Bruno Munari

Hans J. Wegner

Studio BBPR

Giovanni Michelucci

Norman Foster