Marco Zanuso

Marco Zanuso (1916-2001), born in Milan, studied and collaborated with BBPR, before going out to become one of the founding fathers of Italian industrial design. His objects won him seven Golden Compass awards. He was among the first to devote himself to the application of new materials and technologies to everyday objects and to the industrialisation of products in the years a$er the Second World War and the Italian economic boom. As an architect, in addition to a number of private residences, he designed famous buildings for Olivetti (the factories in Argentina and Brazil, as well as in Italy) along with the Italian headquarters of IBM.