Angelo Mangiarotti

Italian Angelo Mangiarotti (1921–2012) was an architect, sculptor and designer known particularly for buildings and furniture that perfectly combine functionalist ideas with beautiful, sculptural forms and the uniqueness of natural materials. Mangiarotti graduated as an architect from the Polytechnic of Milan in 1948 and, after a few years, moved to the United States where he met the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe – pioneers who all would have a massive influence on Mangiarotti’s furniture designs and architecture. In 1994 Angelo Mangiarotti was awarded with a Compasso d’Oro in honour of his long and successful his career.