Nanda Vigo was born in Milan in 1936. After graduating from Institute Polytechnique in Lausanne she worked as an Intern in san Francisco for over a year. she returned to Italy and opened her studio in Milan in 1959

She immediately began to produce architectural projects that were astonishing for their time, such as the high-rise cemetery in Rozzano (1959) and the all-white Zero House in Milan (1959-62). At the same time, she began to design aluminium and glass optical sculptures. She created lamps and furniture that were conceived as artistic objects.

Vigo designed several mesmerizing, art-filled residential interiors during the 1970s, such as the house created for art collector Giobatta Meneguzzo in the town of Malo. While the house was designed by Gio Ponti in 1964, the interior design was entrusted to Vigo.

She approached her impressive interiors as total-art installations, always aiming at transformative aesthetic experiences.

Since the early 1980s, Vigo has continued to exhibit all around the world and participate in important cultural events, such as Venice's 40th Biennale in 1982, and since 2006 her work has been in the permanent collection of the Triennale Design Museum