Designers and Architects

FRANCO ALBINI

Franco Albini (Robbiate, October 17, 1905 - Milan, November 1, 1977) was an Italian architect and designer.

Albini was one of the most important Italian architects of the twentieth century strict adherent to the Italian Rationalism and as such is recognized internationally through an extensive publications of his works.
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MELCHIORRE BEGA

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OSVALDO BORSANI

Architect and designer, at the age of sixteen he began working with the Atelier Varedo, a company founded by his father in 20 years. Still a student, in 1933, for the V Triennale, a signature project all rationalist: The House Min. He graduated from the Politecnico in Milan in 1937 and now an architect, implement a permanent change to the family. Borsani feel the need to make a change in production, wants to make individual pieces manufactured in series and no longer full of furniture design. You pass by the Atelier at the factory. In 1953, with the twin Fulgencio founded the technology company born from the idea of ​​developing technological design. The new company will produce the most well-known furniture design world as the D70 sofa and chaise longue, 1953 P40 1955 that will be produced industrially. Both products, icons of Italian design, are exposed at the MoMA in New York. In 1968 the XIV Triennale, Graphis presents Borsani for Tecno, white laminate system for offices and regular geometries. Since the 70s, after the opening of Centro Progetti Tecno began to collaborate with designers and architects such as Gae Norman Foster and Renzo Piano.
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PAOLO e GIOVANNI BUFFA

Paolo Buffa is the son of art. His father John was a painter and performer whose cartoons extremely decorative stained glass, published in journals and handbooks for craftsmen, were proposed as a model of exquisite 'new art'. He had founded with Beltrami, Cantinotti Zuccaro and a workshop for stained glass windows of considerable success. Working in collaboration with Quarter and Mazzucotelli, was one of the architects of the Italian renewal of applied arts at the beginning of the century.

Paolo Buffa began working in the studio of Gio Ponti and as a result, since 1928, as is apparent from the documents of the era, in close collaboration with the architect A. Cassi Ramelli. He devoted himself mainly to furniture, designing furniture proposing new models continuously. More than a precursor, is a faithful spokesman for the taste of his time, and twentieth-century neoclassical before then. Since 1930, the Triennial invited, called to participate in competitions dell'ENAPI, to collaborate in the magazine "Domus", can be considered one of the most influential bulls furnishes the Milan area.
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CASSINA S.p.a.

Cassina works industrially in the contemporary furnishing sector. It produces chairs, tables, armchairs, beds, furniture, with a particular flair for upholstered items and work in wood, leather and other materials.
The high quality of its products go through an optimal combination of industrial technology and artisan production methods. Cassina does not cease to develop their research skills, but retains the values ​​and traditions of its history.
In his collection are hosted projects that express different cultures and languages​​, with ample room for experimentation and the aesthetics of the materials.
At onset, some Cassina products appeared futuristic, if not disturbing, but the time and foresight in continuing to offer them have made the classic, perfectly in harmony with the rest of the collection.
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RAFFAELLA CRESPI

Raffaella Crespi, the keeper architect of Italian design

Woman intelligent, sensitive, brilliant, unpredictable, brilliant, really rare humility, he was personally involved in the search for "polytechnic", becoming the guardian of the memory of Italian design consists of material culture, and industrial design. Born in Milan on 27 February 1929 Raffaella Crespi spent childhood and adolescence in the area during Independence. Her father was an entrepreneur in coffee machines for bars, while his mother Anna Cardini was an Italian teacher, greek and latin. After graduating from high school classic "Parini", where in 1945 he was among the founders of the magazine "The Mosquito", Raffaella graduated in Architecture at the Polytechnic in 1955. During those years, was born with that kind of design which still identifies the 'knowing how' Italian, even Milan. He began his academic career in 'scope of projects. In '69 he obtained the professorship and in 1980 became Professor of Technology of' architecture, and Industrial Design until 2001. Raffaella was among the founders of 'ADI (Industrial Design Association), the magazine "Our Italy" and the foundation "Terragni» Como. From 1973 to 1977 Raffaella became president of the 'Order of Architects of the Province of Milan, the position he held for the first time by a woman. Meanwhile, Raffaella had met in the '53' s engineer and architect Marcello Grisotti, professor at the Polytechnic of Milan Bari and then to Engineering, that the 'hired as editor of the magazine "Architecture / Construction." A love that blossomed day after day, working side by side. They married in '62. In their study in the area of ​​Porta Venezia had his right arm as the' irreplaceable Nando Melli. Raffaella oversaw exhibitions of international importance such as "The theater in the Weimar Republic" at the Palazzo delle Stelline in '79 and' puppets, marionettes and puppets from the eighteenth century to the present day 'at the Royal Palace in 1980. Some of his works were exhibited at the MOMA design of New York, Tokyo, Paris, London. From the 'necklace of 74 headed "Research Technology of' Architecture 'for the' publisher Franco Angeli and 1988 series 'Design' for Hoepli. He was fond of the cats: one at a time, always with the same name and the black male, Menelik. In his spare time Raffaella made drawings with ink and pen: flowers, still lifes, landscapes captured by the Gravesend home with private dock, between the lake and the mountains of Lombardy. addii@francomanzoni.it
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CARLO DE CARLI

Pupil of Gio Ponti, it was not only a star of the Museum of the Triennale of Milan, but also one of the personality that has most contributed to the renewal of the production of furniture in Brianza directing it towards the design. Leading figure of the Polytechnic of Milan. From 1948 to 1968 he was a teacher as dean. In 1954 he won the Compasso d'Oro with the chair 683 produced by Cassina while with the Crossbow chair, designed for Tecno, won the Grand Prize of the XI Triennale. His design career is marked by an intense collaboration with several companies including Longhi and Cinova. Some works, to be mentioned because of their importance in architecture from Milan, the two houses are being built with Antonio Carminati Gardens, the Teatro San Erasmo and the church of San Ildefonso. In 2011, De Carli is remembered at the Triennale Design Museum with the exhibition of furniture that crowns him as one of the masters of Italian style. His book Architecture Space primary of 1982.
Fonte: AT Casa - Corriere della Sera.it

PIERO FORNASETTI

Piero Fornasetti, Milan, was a painter, sculptor, interior decorator, printer of art books and creator of more than eleven thousand objects. For the variety of decorations, the production of Fornasetti is one of the largest of the twentieth century.

Celebrated as one of the most original and creative talents of the twentieth century, during his career Fornasetti has given birth to a language of images instantly recognizable and always fascinating again. The world of Fornasetti is magical, vivid picture and color, filled with wit and humor.
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JOSEPH HOFFMANN

Josef Hoffmann (Brtnice, December 15, 1870 - Vienna, May 7, 1956) was a leading Austrian architects active between the late nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century.
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ICO PARISI

Ico Parisi (Palermo 1916 - Como 1996) was one of the outstanding figures of culture Como '900. Already active at the study Terragni in 1936, he graduated in architecture in Lausanne in 1950. Then Opera as an architect (remember, among others, the Pavilion room at the Milan Triennale, 1954, the church of Santa Maria OAS Fonteblanda Grosseto, 1962 and numerous private dwellings), as a designer (furniture, objects, glass, etc..), as "a man of utopias" that addresses present and future with a series of proposals provocative and ironic. He and his work have paid attention to the Venice Biennale (1976), the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome (1979), the Musée d'Ixelles (1980), Documenta in Kassel (1982), the Centre Pompidou Paris (1983), the Pavilion of Contemporary Art in Milan (1986), Galleria Civica di Modena (1990 and 1994), the Pinacoteca Civica di Como (1995).
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GIO PONTI

John Bridges, said Gio (Milan, November 18, 1891 - Milan, 16 September 1979), was an Italian architect and designer.
Gio (Giovanni) Ponti was born in Milan in 1891, and graduated in architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 1921, after interrupting his studies as a result of his participation in the First World War.

Initially opened the study together with the architect Emilio Lancia (1926-1933), before moving to the collaboration with engineers Mellucci Joachim Louis (1927), Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini (1933-1945).
In 1923 I participated in the Biennale of decorative arts held at the ISIA in Monza and was later involved in the organization of the various Triennial, both in Monza in Milan
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GUGLIELMO ULRICH

Milan 1904-1977 Architect
Ulrich is one of the great figures in the history of Italian furniture of the thirties. Featuring an original style and unmistakable - it has been a status symbol for the upper middle class in Milan. Found no imitators, because the charm of its furniture, unique pieces of simple and severe, essentially consists in the perfection of execution and the preciousness of the materials.
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