Claudio Salocchi

Salocchi was an Italian furniture and industrial designer and architect. He graduated in architecture at the Milan Polytechnic. Claudio Salocchi has produced numerous furniture and lighting projects and, in parallel, has devoted a lot of time and effort to researching different applications of aluminum alloys, optimizing furniture heights and layouts for work and home environments and using new and unfamiliar configurations that did not compromise the practicality of the piece. In 1960, Claudio Sormani designed his iconic Revolving bookcase for the Sormani furniture factory. In 1965 he founded his own design studio and in 1967 he formalized what was to be a prolific collaboration with Sormani, for whom he continued to design, among other things, the Palla polyurethane chair (1966), the Appogio polyurethane seat (1971 ), the Lia aluminum chair (1966), the Ellisse aluminum table (1967) and the Napoleon aluminum table (1973). In 1979, Salocchi was awarded the prestigious Compasso d'Oro for his work and research in the design of Metrsosistema household appliances with the manufacturer Alberti.