1976 — 2026
Six collaborations spanning very different sectors, from automotive and bathroom products to industrial refrigeration and furniture.
Lighting
Italamp is a Veneto-based company specialising in handcrafted glass. This expertise provided the starting point for a portable, battery-powered lamp designed to reveal the material’s natural beauty, with an LED light source and integrated controls.
Industrial refrigeration
Kelvin Italy makes air-conditioning and refrigeration systems for industry. Its machines work on shop floors and in workshops, where a purely technical appearance is the norm.
The company wanted to go further and entrusted the studio with a design study, to give its products an aesthetic and functional quality that was not expected in that sector. The result was the JET and KRA/KRO chiller families.
Automotive
For Magneti Marelli, the Italian maker of automotive components and systems, the studio worked on dashboards.
The starting point was clarity of information for the driver: a visual hierarchy guiding the eye and establishing what should be seen first. The studio explored visual ergonomics — how quickly and confidently information could be read while minimising distraction from the road.
This analysis led to several proposals, each with a different way of organising and presenting the information on the instrument cluster.
Lighting and modular bathroom systems
In the late 1980s, the Japanese company Matsushita Electric Works, later part of Panasonic, approached Studio Gecchelin to develop innovative products with a European sensibility.
The collaboration produced some lighting products, a spotlight and a desk lamp, and a very different project: a traditional Japanese bathroom, based on the modular logic of the tatami and on local building methods.
Lighting
Few companies match its expertise in working with sheet plastic through thermoforming and hand hot-bending. The two lamps grew directly from this capability: their form follows the shape the sheet takes as it is bent.
Furniture
In 1992, Ycami, a Brianza-based company specialising in aluminium processing for the furniture industry, approached the studio to design a TV trolley. Cathode-ray tube televisions were bulky, and the trolley had to accommodate them.
The solution uses an aluminium profile cut diagonally, giving the trolley a dynamic appearance suited to an object designed to move on castors.
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