Laura May Todd, Wallpaper's Milan Editor, based in the city, is a Canadian-born journalist covering design, architecture and style.
A recreation of the Fiat showroom on Zurich’s Beethovenstrasse, designed in 1973, where Aulenti propped up a pair of then-brand-new Fiat Rallys on a sloping floor reminiscent of a race trackThroughout her career, few cast a longer shadow on the landscape of Italian design than Gae Aulenti. An architect, designer and creative polymath, she was born in the Italian region of Friuli Venezia Giulia in 1927, where her father worked as a tax collector and her mother as a school teacher.
Moving deeper into the gallery, visitors are then deposited into the Olivetti showroom in Buenos Aires, which Aulenti designed in 1968. Here, a set of risers act as a display for Olivetti’s products, many of which were designed by Aulenti, including her ‘King Sun’ lamp, made for Kartell in 1967, as well as typewriters by the likes ofA medley of interiors from the 1970s and 1980s sits in the centre of the gallery.
Throughout her career, Aulenti returned again and again to Palazzo dell’Arte, where the Triennale Design Museum is located: from staging her ‘Arrival at the Seaside’ installation in 1964, to restructuring of the museum’s galleries in 1990, and later receiving the Medaglia d’Oro award for lifetime achievement in design, shortly before her death in 2012. Now, this new exhibition cements her lasting role as a titan of Italian design.
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