Gruppo Architetti Urbanisti Città Nuova

The Urbanist Architects Group "Città Nuova" was founded in 1960 by Giancarlo Mattioli and his colleagues Franco Morelli, Gianpaolo Mazzucato, Mario Zaffagnini, Pierluigi Cervellati and Umberto Maccaferri. The Gruppo Urbanisti “Città Nuova” and Mattioli, have designed the Nesso table lamp for Artemide in 1967. The Nesso lamp is distinguished by the large umbrella shaped diffuser with ABS resin base, fun and elegant at the same time, a great commercial success of the seventies, exhibited at the MoMa in New York and in the most famous museums in the world.