Gae Aulenti

Gae Aulenti (Palazzolo dello Stella, 1927 – Milan, 2012) graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1954, joined the Italian Association for Industrial Design in 1960 and received a prize at the Milan Triennale in 1964. She is best remembered for the conversion of the Musée d’Orsay in the 1980s: most of her career was spent organising large public spaces, and furniture was only part of her work.

That part is nonetheless considerable, and it crosses materials. Galerie 90 brings together here her lamps for Artemide, her glass for Vistosi and her marble for Knoll — three manufacturers, three materials, one way of reducing an object to its geometry.