Gaudi Armchair

Vico Magistretti was an Italian designer and architect whose practice spanned furniture, lighting, and interior spaces from the 1940s onward. Working primarily in Milan, he developed a restrained modernist vocabulary that emphasized functionality and material clarity, particularly in bent plywood and molded plastic. His designs for manufacturers including Artemide and Cassina became influential fixtures of postwar Italian industrial production. Magistretti's work exemplified the pragmatic approach of Italian design during the reconstruction era, balancing austere formal principles with manufacturing feasibility.

Milano