Tommaso Cimini
Tommaso Cimini was an Italian artist. He founded Lumina Italia in 1975 and designed the very simplest of table lamps from just a bare transformer for the Milan Fair in 1974: Daphine. With its purity of line, the Daphine continues to act as benchmark. Revered by architects and designers all over the world, it’s a timeless icon of Italian design. Cimini died in an aircraft accident in 1997, leaving the company in the capable hands of his business partner and then his son, Ettore.