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GIANFRANCO
FRATTINI
From door handles and jewelry to homes and hotels, Gianfranco Frattini
(1926 – 2004) left an indelible mark on modern Italian design over the course
of his 50-year career. It may have been the architect Ernesto Rogers, Frattini’s
countryman, who coined the phrase “from the spoon to the city”, but there are
few designers who lived this adage as completely as Frattini. He treated every
project with the same creative imagination and devotion to detail, regardless of
scope or scale.
Frattini left behind one of the richest and most varied legacies of any 20th-century
designer, encompassing award-winning furniture – both indoor and outdoor –
modern icons, and landmark interiors that shaped the taste of the era.
