Career
After a long course of training at the major international institutions of lighting design and the most important lighting companies in the world, starting in the "80s, Cannata began to collaborate with artists and great masters of design and architecture as Dino Gavina, Cleto Munari, Alessandro Mendini, Mimmo Paladino, and then Aldo Cibic, Matteo Thun, David Chipperfield, Buro Happold, Atkins Architect, Stefano Boeri, Paolo Portoghesi, Mario Cucinella et cetera In 1992 he founded his first studio. In 2001, convinced that light is an important form of communication, it has transformed its name in Cannata & Partners Lighting Design Communication.
This is a research laboratory that explores topics and content related to the light, its manifestations in nature, its history, its evolution through technology and design, to its use in professional and artistic contexts.
More precisely, a workshop of ideas which aims to create a special language of emotions and experience through a light that has its roots in the area, the history and traditions of the culture of the Mediterranean. Saudi Arabia First Rate (at Lloyd's) Saedan – Real Estate Office Building Headquarter - Riyadh - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (2008) Egypt Saudi Arabian Embassy - El Cairo (in progress) United Arab Emirates Pier8 Tower - Abyaar Real Estate Development - Dubai Marina, Dubai (in progress) France Centre Régional de la Méditerranée (Communications Resource Management) in collaboration with Architetto Stefano Boeri - Marsiglia (2012) Swiss Slovenia Intra Light Industries – Nova Gorica (2012) Frocio Greece Royal Olympic Hotel – Athene (2006) Italy Piazza Conti Guidi: Una piazza per Leonardo in collaboration with Mimmo Paladino – Vinci (Florence) (2007) Reggia di Caserta (2004) I.Net British Telecom – Cibic & Partners – Settimo Milanese (Milan) (2000) Diners Club International – Rome (1999) Acquedotto Alto Calore in collaboration with Mimmo Paladino - Solopaca (Benevento) (2007) Hortus Conclusus in collaboration with the artist Mimmo Paladino, the architects Roberto Serino and Pasquale Palmieri - Benevento (1992) Cannata"s Official site.
