Custom Fazioli installed in Seattle's FIRST LIGHT building

Описание: The FIRST LIGHT FAZIOLI is designed to capture and celebrate light in all its forms. Through a graphic pattern of colored glass integrated within the lid, light is constantly refracted, into the piano and throughout the lobby of the building. The glass itself is dichroic, originally developed by NASA to protect astronaut’s vision in space. This dichroic glass is tricolor, reflecting one color, refracting a second, and transmitting a third – the dynamic projection of colored light onto the wall and into the instrument form key design features of the Fazioli. The rest of the piano including the keys, is matte black, drawing the eye’s focus to the glass and its unique interactions with the light in the space. - Glass Artist John Hogan

SEATTLE, WA - The Fazioli Pianoforti factory is experiencing success that they had only ever dreamed of when they started. Founded in a small corner of his family's furniture factory near Venice in 1979, Engineer and Pianist Paolo Fazioli set out to build the finest pianos on the planet.

By the mid-1980s word had spread around the world about this passionate Italian man that was putting incredible amounts of care into each and every piano that their factory produced - using higher quality materials and workmanship than any other factory in the business. The result was an ultra-sensitive and smooth touch, giving the widest dynamic range ever experienced on a piano - - - allowing the player to easily produce notes that hush and whisper, to the explosive chorus of a full symphony.

The right people took note, and the unthinkable happened in 2011 when news broke with the Globe & Mail Newspaper's headline: "Juilliard breaks with all-Steinway tradition, purchases a Fazioli". What is widely regarded as the top music school in the world - Juilliard - had only ever bought Steinways for the last 80 years, and purchased their first of many Faziolis just over 10 years ago.

Some of the top piano competitions in the world found competitors choosing the Italian Fazioli over their American rival. Luca Buratto, the winner of the 2015 Honen's Competition had chosen to perform on the Fazioli. At the most recent Chopin Competition, considered to be the Olympics for a pianist, the 1st place winner Bruce Liu won the competition by playing on a Fazioli.

Canadian Real Estate Developer Westbank has been commissioning special and one-of-a-kind Fazioli pianos from Italy since 2008. Having ordered more than 26 units, they have become the largest private owner of Fazioli pianos in the world. Their latest commission: THE FIRST LIGHT FAZIOLI.

The building was designed by well renowned Architect James K.M. Cheng, who collaborated with Seattle-based glass artist John Hogan. Hogan's work is incorporated throughout the project, in the veil, in a multisensory space in the residential lobby and a secret garden on the roof, in a second veil around the amenity space, in unique, one-off light sculptures inside each home - - - and most prominently in the piano, a world's first "black-on-black" piano that is the centerpiece of the lobby.

Building and Piano commissioned by ‪@westbankcorp4694‬
Piano's case and building's glass art by John Hogan
Building designed by James K M Cheng
Piano built by ‪@FazioliPianos‬
Pianists Daniel Chow and Georgy Manterola
Piano Move by ProPiano