The Forgotten Italian Women: Aulenti, Crespi, Bo Bardi
Italian design tells itself in the masculine. Yet women signed its icons. A portrait of those long erased.
1 MIN · 5 OBJECTS IDENTIFIEDPonti, Magistretti, Sottsass, Castiglioni: Italian design is recited in the masculine. Yet women signed its icons — often credited far too late. A portrait of the forgotten.
Gae Aulenti
Architect and designer: the Pipistrello lamp, the table on castors, and the conversion of the Musée d'Orsay. A colossal career, long kept in the shadow of her male peers.
Gabriella Crespi
The organic luxury of the 1970s: brass, bamboo, transformable pieces (the Plurimi series). Rediscovered late, her prices are now soaring at auction.
Cini Boeri, Nanda Vigo
Boeri: the Serpentone sofa, the Ghost chair in curved glass. Vigo: light, mirrors, radical spaces. Two pioneers of a modernity once credited to men.
Why it matters
Their prices are climbing because the market is finally correcting the story. To know these names is to be a step ahead — and to have a truer eye.
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