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Michele De Lucchi Ferrara, has kept a leading role in the Italian architectural and design scene for the past five decades, achieving great fame also beyond national borders starting from the mids. De Lucchi is an evolving figure , whose career can be subdivided into a few clear periods, corresponding to his approaching different design scales and disciplines.

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During and after his master degree in Architecture, which he obtains in Florence in , he gets in touch with the protagonists of the Italian radical movement : the Florentine group Lapo Binazzi, Adolfo Natalini , Gianni Pettena , as well as their Milanese counterpart Andrea Branzi , Alessandro Mendini , at a time when exchanges between the two were particularly thriving and productive.

During this first part of the s, De Lucchi and the other radicals are mostly the advocates of a rebel cultural project, which is interested in challenging and discussing the ways of production , more than in designing objects and buildings. This is a crucial occasion, a breakthrough for De Lucchi in many regards: on a cultural plan, as he becomes familiar with the field of actual product design , but also, more broadly and more prosaically, on a professional and social plan.

The encounter with Ettore Sottsass , though, proves to be by far the most significant in the long term. He calls De Lucchi to work in his office in , he introduces him to Olivetti , that De Lucchi will collaborate with as a a consultant from to , and he involves him in the Memphis movement , starting from the early s. From Domus , February From Domus , December From Domus , October Michele De Lucchi, Poste Italiane, From Domus , May