Gianfranco Frattini Explained

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Gianfranco Frattini (May 15, 1926 – April 6, 2004) was an Italian architect and designer. He is a member of the generation that created the Italian design movement in the late 1950s through the 1960s and is considered to have played a major role in shaping it.[1]

Early life and education

Gianfranco Frattini was born in Padua, Italy on May 15, 1926.[2] He graduated with a degree in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1953.[3]

Work and career

Frattini opened his own professional practice in Milan, after having worked in the office of his teacher and mentor Giò Ponti. Frattini became an industrial designer by default when he lacked appropriate lighting and furniture for his interiors.[4] His collaboration with Cesare Cassina for his namesake company started in 1954, followed by collaborations with many other manufacturers, such as Bernini, Arteluce, Acerbis, Fantoni, Artemide (for whom among others pieces with Livio Castiglioni he designed the historic Boalum lamp),[5] Luci, Knoll, Lema and many others. In 1956 he co-founded Associazione per il Disegno Industriale and throughout his career he practiced both industrial design and architecture, focusing mostly on interiors. His residential commissions included numerous private apartments[6] [7] and palazzos,[8] stores,[9] and offices.

His international commissions took him to Dusseldorf and Luxembourg, where he designed the interiors of the luxury stores, and Tokyo, where he designed the interior public spaces of the Tokyo Hilton.

Frattini was a board member of the Triennale. A great connoisseur of wood craftsmanship, he forged a long and fruitful professional partnership with the master craftsman from Bovisio Masciago (Milan), Pierluigi Ghianda.[10] Glassware designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Progetti is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art[11] and the Boalum lamp (with Livio Castiglioni) produced by Artemide is in the collection of the Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.[12]

Gallery of works

Death and afterward

Gianfranco Frattini died in Milan, Italy on April 6, 2004.

Awards and honors

Frattini won many professional awards and prizes, among them the prestigious Compasso d'Oro.[13]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Book: Santini . Pier Carlo . Italian Design: Gianfranco Frattini . 1988 . Edizioni Biblioteca dell'Immagine . Pordenone, Italy.
  2. Web site: ADI - Associazione per il Disegno Industriale . 2024-06-29 . www.adi-design.org.
  3. Web site: Gianfranco Frattini profile on Cassina Official Site . March 28, 2011.
  4. Web site: Gianfranco Frattini profile on Knoll official site . March 28, 2011.
  5. Web site: Boalum Lamp on Architonic . March 28, 2011.
  6. Book: Romanelli . Marco . Ritrovare Gianfranco Frattini : rediscovered . 2018 . Triennial Design Museum . Milano . 9788897506232 . 109 . 2018.
  7. Un appartemento in Roma: la pianta rinnovata . DOMUS . October 1963 . 407 . 27–33 . An Apartment in Rome: Renewed Layout . DOMUS S.A. . Italian.
  8. A Genova, in un vecchio palazzo, un negozio su due piani . DOMUS . February 1963 . 399 . 37–43 . In Genoa, in an old building, a shop on two floors . DOMUS S.A..
  9. Un negozio a Bari . DOMUS . October 1960 . 371 . 49–51 . A Store in Bari . DOMUS S.A..
  10. Web site: Bottega Ghianda. www.bottegaghianda.com. 2016-06-01.
  11. Web site: Gianfranco Frattini MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art. 2016-06-01.
  12. Web site: Boalum Lamp, ca. 1969. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. en-us. 2016-06-01.
  13. Book: Gianfranco Frattini: architetto d'interni e designer. Gramigna. Giuliana. Monetti. Federica. 2007-01-01. FrancoAngeli. 9788846486394. it.

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