Designed by Vico Magistretti in 1977, it was awarded the Compasso d'Oro in 1979 and became, since then, part of the permanent collections of the world's major museums of design.

Atollo's secret probably lies in the geometrical construction of its shapes: the cone on the cylinder and the hemisphere above all. A luminous sculpture from which nothing can be removed, to which nothing can be added, and which nothing can copy.