Gianfranco Frattini was born in Padua in 1926 and graduated in architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1953, where he remained working there right up to his death.

Design Gallerist presents Gianfranco Frattini, that his professional activate was mainly interior and industrial design.

He was an assiduous participant in shows and exhibitions and his design projects won a large number of prizes.

It became an industrial designer by default when he had no lighting and furniture for your interiors.

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Frattini opened his own professional practice in Milan, after having worked in the office of his teacher and mentor Gio Ponti. His collaboration with Cesare Cassina for his namesake company started in 1954, followed by collaborations with many other manufacturers, such as Bernini, Arteluce, Acerbis, Fantoni, Artemide (for who among other pieces with Livio Castiglioni he designed the historic lamp Boalum), Luci, Knoll, Lema and many others.

In 1956, he co-founded Associazione per il Disegno Industriale and throughout his career he practiced both industrial design and architecture, focusing mainly on interiors. Your presence was usually felt in conferences, conventions and furniture fairs around the world.

He was a board member of the Triennial. Large wooden craft connoisseur, he forged a long and fruitful professional partnership with master craftsman from Bovisio Masciago (Milan), Pierluigi Ghianda. Glassware designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Progetti is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and Boalum lamp (with Livio Castiglioni) produced by Artemide is in the collection of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Nest of tables, Model 783, Designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Cassina.

Gianfranco Frattini, Agnese Poltrona for Tacchini Italia.

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Rosewood sideboard with tambour doors designed in 1957 by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini.

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