Adieu to award-winning designer Richard Sapper

After a life spent in Milan, the designer Richard Sapper passed away at the age of 83. In 2014 he won the eleventh Compasso award for his career, during which he combined German rigour and his own genius to design a multitude of extraordinary products of enormous success in highly diversified fields, like the coffee maker for Alessi, the Tizio lamp and creations for Brionvega. Iconic objects destined to become an integral part of our daily live, in and out of our homes. Richard Sapper fame and fortune is also linked to his productive, 18-year-long collaboration with the architect Marco Zanuso (1916-2001), which resulted in the TS 502 (1963) radio for Brionvega, better known as the Cubo; the K-1340 (1963) children’s chair for Kartell; and the Grillo (1966) telephone for Siemens.