The italian architect and designer
Vico Magistretti died yesterday, september 19th, 2006.
Vico Magistretti was born in Milan in 1920 and graduated in his native city at the Politecnico in 1945. Although his main activity is in the urbanistic and architectural sectors, he soon becomes an important designer also in industrial design, lighting, furniture and interior decorating sectors.
Magistretti designs produced simple, portable, practical furniture.
There are innumerable leading firms for which he has made projects and just as many publications of his work in magazines regarding this sector.
(Cassina, Artemide,O-Luce...)
As with Marco Zanuso and Joe Colombo, Magistretti’s experiments with plastic changed consumers’ perception of plastic. Once dismissed as a cheap, flimsy material, it became a stylish, sophisticated one.
Throughout his career, he has been an ambassador for design that does not perpetuate the "throw away" consumer culture. |