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Gianfranco Frattini

Gianfranco Frattini

The History of Design

Gianfranco Frattini was born in Padua in 1926. He graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1953. He opened his professional studio in Milan, after working in the study of his teacher and mentor Gio Ponti. His collaboration with Cesare Cassina for the homonymous company began in 1954, followed by collaborations with many other industrialists, such as Bernini, Arteluce, Acerbis, Fantoni, Artemide (for which, among other products, he designed with Livio Castiglioni the historical Lamp boalum), lights, Knoll, Lema. In 1956 he co-founded the Association for Industrial Design and during his career he worked both in industrial design and architecture, focusing in particular on interiors. He was a member of the Council of Milan Triennale. A great connoisseur of artisan wood, he forged a long and fruitful professional collaboration with the master craftsman Pierluigi Ghianda. Glass items designed by Frattini for projects are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the lamp Boalum (designed with Livio Castiglioni) produced by Artemide is in the collection of the Smithsonian, at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

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