Lierna, 1944

Pietro Maria Castiglioni, known as Piero, graduated in architecture in Milan in 1970 and has dedicated almost his entire career to lighting design, overseeing the lighting design of buildings, art galleries, museums, urban areas, public and exterior lighting, private residences, and showrooms.
“Electrician before architect,” as he likes to define himself, Piero Castiglioni is now considered one of the leading global figures in Lighting Design. His success is the direct result of years of field research, thanks to a solid technical-scientific culture, an empirical approach, and extraordinary curiosity. Initially collaborating with his father Livio, whom he joined in 1972 and from whom he inherited a passion for light, his decades of work in both design and product development have significantly contributed to enhancing the importance and recognition of the role of lighting designer. He has challenged many common practices and proposed concepts more aligned with contemporary dimensions, aware that light can indeed be thought of in a completely different way. More than a thousand lighting projects around the world bear Piero Castiglioni’s signature. Just to mention a few: the Musée d’Orsay, Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele in Milan, the Sala dei Corazzieri in the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Spasa na Krovi in St. Petersburg, the Garibaldi Complex in Porta Nuova in Milan, the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, the Musée de Bretagne – Champs Libres in Rennes, and the Opéra Bastille in Paris.

Main Recognitions
Award “Design de Ambientes 98/99
Award ECC Design Award (2019)
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2020)
AIDI Award Light 2021