Lumina, a lighting products manufacturer whose main strengths are construction capability and quality control at the service of simple and technological lamps, grew out of the vision of Tommaso Cimini.

When he set up the company in Sedriano (a small town in the Milan area) in 1980, he already had one principle very clear in his mind: it is function that generates form.

With his ingenuity, innate capacity to innovate and deep knowledge of materials, Tommaso Cimini was able, in the mid ‘70s, to retool the machines in his workshops to create the Daphine, a lamp that became a timeless icon of Italian design.

Tommaso Cimini made the first prototype of the Daphine in Sedriano in 1975.
An unconcealed transformer, an articulated arm in two segments and an adjustable diffuser housing a halogen light source: this is the Daphine.

An iconic lamp that perfectly expresses the synergic relationship between function and form, the essence of Lumina’s design philosophy.

The company was set up in 1980, at the start of a decade of splendid disruption in Italian design: they were the years of the post-modern movement, the Memphis Group and Alchimia, and the international success of Italian style and know-how.

From the year of incorporation to the present day, we at Lumina have been true to the spirit of our origins, embodied in every element we produce, proudly and with undiminished passion.