Federico Palazzari

Federico comes from a family of lawyers and theatre producers, with roots in Umbria and Rome.

He attended the Francesco Morosini Naval school in Venice and read Law at La Sapienza University in Rome.

Fascinated by the design industry, in his early 30’s moved to Milan, and starting from a custom lighting production workshop created what is now Nemo Lighting Group, acquiring in 2012 Nemo, founded by Franco Cassina in 1993, Illuminating Experiences USA, Artelux France and lastly, in 2020, Ilti Luce – now Nemo Studio – from Philips Lighting to move into museum and art lighting solutions.

Since January 2023, Federico has been Senior advisor design of Fineurop Soditic.