Cini&Nils

Cini&Nils was founded in Milan in the early 1970s by designers Franco Bettonica and Mario Melocchi. Their best-known piece is Cuboluce, a small cube lamp from 1972 that turns on when its lid is lifted. It’s a simple idea that earned a place in the collection of MoMA in New York.

That sense of wit and economy still defines the brand. Cini&Nils makes compact, carefully engineered lamps for tables, walls and ceilings, with clean geometric forms and an understated, distinctly Milanese character.