Alberto Saggia with Vistosi designed a Blown Glass and Metal glass lamp using a glass blowing technique and then structuring metal around the glass. Alberto Saggia was born in Novara on 21 August 1978.
After completing scientific studies he attended university and obtained a degree in Industrial Design at the Milan Polytechnic, specialising in lighting design. After finishing his university studies, in 2004 he began working with the Metis Lighting Studio of Milan, where he continues to be employed in lighting design and the development of custom-made lighting solutions.
In recent years, he has also held lighting design lessons in university courses, as well as been involved in design and graphic projects as a free-lance professional. Blown Glass and Metal was designed, engineered, and manufactured in Italy.
It has been featured in “The New Italian Design” exhibit created by Triennale Di Milano, which is an outline of modern Italian design that explains evolution of association and its links with politics, economics, and technology changes that occur through out time.
By Andreas Papazafeiropoulos