Glasitalia Andromeda Mirror Collection

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ANDROMEDA MIRROR COLLECTION

ANDROMEDA MIRROR COLLECTION

Designed by Nanda Vigo

Re-launch of the first collection of mirrors designed by Nanda Vigo for Glas Italia, initially presented in 1974.

It is a collection of mirrors in negative-positive (transparent parts alternate with mirrored parts) in various shapes and sizes, available in a neutral finish or in unique amber-colored glass. The hanging system allows you to install the mirrors in various inclinations.

DESIGNER

NANDA VIGO

Nanda Vigo, Mitteleuropean born in Milan, graduate at Politecnique in Lausanne, tryng in S.Francisco. Her own atelier in MILANO in '59, and start to exhibit in many gallery and museum in Europe and in Italy.

She went towards thé 60's, with the support of experience obtained as an architect and designer, at formulating a cronotopical theory space/time completely original and autonomus in art.

Since than, here presence has been constant in the mids of the most advanced aesthetical research (Zéro Group, Aktuel Group, Light und Bewegung), with the precise intent of probing, deepening, the possibilities of sensorial stimuli obtained by the use of materials which are typical of industry, such as glass, mirrors, neon light, organized in a uniting and coinvolving spatiality.

She collaborate with Giò Ponti, Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. She took part to 1964 MILANO XIII° Triennale; 1983 MILANO XV° Triennale; 1982 VENEZIA 40° Biennale. Awards: I971 NEW YORK Award of Industrial Design; 1976 MILANO 1°Award Saint Gobain for Industrial Design; 1998 VERONA 1°Award Koiné for Piero Manzoni exibition in MILANO; 2001 MILANO Triennale Compasso D'Oro for Light/Light project.

2008 Award 1° P. Wallpaper / Best Showstopper. She taught at the Institute Politecnique di Lausanne, at the Art Accademy in Macerata, at the European Institute of Design a MILANO, and at the Light Master Design at Brera Accademy. Atelier in MILANO, She leave in East Africa.