On Wednesday, May 21st, we took a bus west of Milan to the corporate headquarters of Artemide, a hub for Italian-designed lighting fixtures. The day before, we also visited their smaller showroom closer to central Milan, which was a glimpse into the creative designs they produce. In our visit, we had the privilege of experiencing private tours of lighting design, testing, and production from experts at Artemide.
I was very interested in the multiple ways that Artemide experiments on its products to ensure that they are not only elegant in visuality but also have limited flaws in their functionality. They were running tests on transportation and wire durability, heat levels emitted from the lamps, light strength compared to candles/natural light, and more. This showed how unique their production process and was very impressive to me.
We also had the opportunity to walk through the factory where they made lighting fixtures. We saw the process of creating and packaging lamps through the work of many people and machinery.
Photos from the gallery of lights inside the factory!
Photos from the Artemide showroom from 5/20