New opening | Milano Manzoni 38

It all started in a small laboratory in the historical centre of the Italian town of Piacenza during the late 1980’s. Davide Groppi was inventing and producing his first lamps and decided simply to use his own name for the name of the company.
Over time, creative independence and management have allowed him to develop his own brand of original and unique products, distributed the world over.
Projects that come from heart and mind, intuitions that emerge from a certain way of being and thinking, in which simplicity, lightness, emotion, invention and amazement are the fundamental elements.
Davide Groppi creations come about through the need to give life to something that is necessary or significant.
The things that inspire these ideas are works of art, ready-made objects, magic, the desire to make things with his hands or simply the urge to play and have fun with light.
Together with other lighting solutions, Anima, Magia, Post Prandium, Vis à Vis will be among the protagonists of the new Davide Groppi Milano Manzoni 38 space, a place in which to discover Davide Groppi light through his products: luminous elements, creations made of ingenuity and imagination, passion and organization, heart and mind.
ANIMA
Design Davide Groppi and Giorgio Rava
Absence and essence of light.
It’s the emotion of an indirect light with an aesthetic poised between Scandinavian and Japanese design, two apparently distant cultures but, actually, very close.
At the top, an open circle, almost a hook for fishermen of the soul.
Anima is the invention of a super subtle light, to be used on the floor or on low furniture, to keep close to yourself or to be used to create depth. It is a lamp to be enjoyed for its essentiality and scenic power.
With its simplicity, it recalls the "subtle sculptures" of Fausto Melotti, which invade the space with a light and musical rhythm.
“Fausto Melotti’s works, especially his slender sculptures, have always inspired me. I consider lightness added value. It’s the urge to make objects with very few things. A stem and a base. I hardly ever manage to justify frills or things that have no purpose other than playing around and having fun.”
Davide Groppi
MAGIA
Design Michele Groppi
Transparency shows, illusion hides.
Light and transparency are the true stars of this project.
Magia is the new suspension lighting system of great effect. Modular and adaptable according to the different heights of the rooms, it can generate direct and indirect light with the 360° adjustability of the module.
Through the effect of the convex lens of the module, the light emission is hidden.
Rigorous, elegant and scenographic, Magia represents an ideal solution for different types of environments.
Magia
Deceives the eye,
creating illusions of unexpected light.
It alters the reflected forms.
Perception blurs,
making it suspended,
almost impalpable.
Suspended transparency,
mirage of apparent inconsistency.
POST PRANDIUM
Design Davide Groppi
During a meal with friends, a ladle is reused to scoop up the light and serve it onto the table.
A project from many years ago, today in a new wireless version.
The love for the ready-made sometimes resurfaces, to satisfy the profound desire for designing as little as possible, taking what exists already.
Rechargeable table lamp. Steel base with matt black finish. Stem and head in chrome-finished steel. Charging via USB C port. Battery life: nine hours.
VIS À VIS
Design Michele Groppi
Taking away, seeking only the light.
A transparent lamp is born, made of truth and beauty.
Ten years after the presentation of our first battery-operated lamp, we wanted to add a new idea of wireless light, remaining unique and innovative.
Rechargeable table lamp with direct light. Transparent stem with magnetic head. Transparent disc with refractive effect. Charging via USB C port. Battery life: nine hours.