Luciano Vistosi

Luciano Vistosi was an Italian designer who specialised in glassworks and is best known for his work with Artemide. Vistosi came to love working with glass as a young boy while exploring his family's glassworks. He was driven by a curiosity and an inventiveness which led to his success in the field. During his career, Luciano Vstosi worked alongside names such as Magistretti, Sottsass, Zanuso, Aulenti, and many others. With them, he became an influential name in Italian design, achieving a profitable combination of modern elegance and creativity in Venetian glass.

The work of Luciano Vistosi leans into one of his main talents, which is sculpture. Alongside lighting design he also created striking works of art that can be seen present in Peggy Guggenheim Collection, the Querini Stampalia Foundation and the Olivetti showroom.

His personal exhibition in 1968 at Galleria Alfieri in Venice revealed a mature artist to the public, rich with a new, valuable poetic approach. In the same year, he also held a personal exhibition in San Francisco, as well as others in Venice, Cologne, and Düsseldorf. Vistosi never gave up his work in art, and continued to create at his studio-workshop in Murano, Italy.