Vico Magistretti

Vico Magistretti (Milan, 1920–2006) was an Italian architect and designer who spent his whole career in the studio at Via Vincenzo Bellini 1 in Milan, in the building his father Pier Giulio had designed. He graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1945, worked on INA-Casa housing during the reconstruction of the city and in 1956 was among the founders of ADI, the Italian association for industrial design.

His furniture and lamps became standards of Italian design: the Carimate chair for Cassina (1960), the Eclisse lamp for Artemide (1967, Compasso d’Oro), the one-piece Selene chair (1969), the Maralunga sofa for Cassina (1973) and the Atollo lamp for Oluce (1977), the last two awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 1979. After his death the studio became the Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti, which keeps his archive at the same address.