Emiliana Martinelli was born in Lucca in 1949. She obtained the diploma at the Istituto d’Arte in Lucca – Ceramics Section and then at the Industrial Design at the ISIA in Florence, where she later graduated in Architecture.
Immediately after graduating, she joined the family business, founded in the 1930s by his grandfather Plinio and later expanded by his father Elio, which in the 1950s focused on the design and production of lamps. With him, her greatest teacher, she began a long collaboration, developing together the themes and products that have distinguished Martinelli Luce’s production all over these years.
Emiliana Martinelli is the president of Martinelli Luce and within the company she has always played a dual role: as an entrepreneur on the one hand and as designer and art director on the other. Infact she has been taking care of the graphics of both the communication and commercial material.