Italian designer Roberto Lucci studied at Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology from 1960 and worked from 1964 at the Eames’ studio in Venice. In 1965 Lucci was back in Milan where he worked in the studio of Marco Zanuso until 1973. Together with Zanuso, Lucci designed a.o. the iconic kitchen scale Terrailon BA 2000-4000.
In 1968 Lucci began working together with Paolo Orlandini, designing a plethora of award-winning industrial products for major companies such as Magis, Lamm-Thonet USA, and Artemide. For Knoll-Velca, Lucci and Orlandini designed the well-known VIP coat tree and umbrella stand in 1970. Their partnership lasted until 2009, when Lucci closed the studio and founded his own design consultancy: Design Maximization.
Lucci became a lecturer and head of Industrial Design Department at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan in 1975 and held that position until 1991. Roberto Lucci is represented at a.o. the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, the Centre National D’Art Contemporain at the Louvre in Paris and the Museum of Furniture Studies in Stockholm.
