Roberto Lucci was born in Milan in 1942, he studied at the Institute of Design in Chicago and at the upper course of industrial design in Venice. Paolo Orlandini was born in Grosseto in 1941; he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the Milan Polytechnic. Both have collaborated for some years with Marco Zanuso sr. and with Richard Sapper. They live and work in the Milan area. Lucci and Orlandini have participated in various editions of the Triennale di Milano and are present in the design collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and the Center National d ' Art Contemporain of the Louvre in Paris. Various products designed by Roberto Lucci and Paolo Orlandini have been selected for the golden compass award.