Castiglioni Carlo

Carlo Castiglioni, Achille's son, was born in 1949 and graduated in medicine, pursuing a career outside architecture and design. He nevertheless maintained a close bond with his father, with whom he also started a project that remained unfinished for the creation of a medical instrument (laryngoscope) and the creation of a mobile prototype-angolier that was later produced with modifications and named Zifol. Following Achille's passing in 2002, he began collaborating with his sister Giovanna with the aim of keeping the Studio Museum open and archiving the documents left by Achille. At the same time he has, again in collaboration with Giovanna, developed the promotion of the vast creative output of Achille's sixty years of work. To achieve these objectives, he sponsored the creation of the Fondazione Achille Castiglioni, of which he is President, and worked to ensure that most of Achille's objects remained in production or were re-produced, aware that, just as the writer lives through the publication of their works, so the designer lives through the availability and use of the objects they created. In 2006, together with his sister Giovanna and his mother Irma, he organised the opening of the Studio Museum to the public and reached an initial agreement with the Fondazione Triennale to digitise the archive. In 2012 he was one of the founders of the Fondazione Achille Castiglioni and since then he has held the position of President, working in the daily management of the Foundation and attending meetings and conferences in Italy and abroad.