The idea for the switches started at home, Palazzo Papadopoli, the baroque-style Palazzo on the Grand Canal in Venice. One day, while working in his studio the designer let his eyes linger on a time-honored light switch made of marble. He realized that similar switches used to populate tables and bedside tables when he was a child, but they have since disappeared from modern design vocabulary. Thus began the journey of the LUCE SERENISSIMA switches, which, he envisioned, would be both functional and serve as small-scale works of art.