When Marco Zanuso invited Luceplan to collaborate on the lighting of the public spaces for the Nuovo Piccolo Teatro, Riccardo Sarfatti felt the excitement of re-living the experience of his father Gino. With his own firm Arteluce, Gino had worked with the young Zanuso on the lighting of the original premises of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, when it was still in Via Rovello. The light, which this time Giorgio Strehler also helped to define, needed to be festive but unobtrusive, elegant without being too big; it had to be special and precious, like that reflected and refracted by a crystal star
