Davide Groppi

Davide Groppi began making lamps in a small workshop in the historic centre of Piacenza in the late 1980s, and gave the company his own name. It remains independent, with every design still developed in-house.

His approach is one of reduction. Groppi’s lamps are pared back to the point where the light matters more than the object producing it, and are often little more than a fine line, a disc or a point of light. His ideas come from art, everyday objects, magic and a sense of play. The result is lighting that feels light in every sense: simple, poetic and quietly surprising.