Vittoriano Viganò was born in Milan in 1919. Son of the painter and engraver Vico Viganò, he graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic School of Milan in 1944.Vittoriano was Art Director of Arteluce, the company founded by Gino Sarfatti, for some years and for Arteluce he designed numerous luminaires as well as the flagship store in via della Spiga in Milan. In 1994 Milan Triennale re-edited and exhibited some of his furniture for the great retrospective on the origins of Italian industrial design, some of those were selected for the Permanent Collection.