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Agata
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Whoi are Franco Albini e Franca Helg
Agata doorhandle (1965 prod. Olivari)
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the book "L'architettura presa per mano" (Hand on architecture) by Stefano Casciani,
Idea Books, Milan, 1992 Long-time member of the Modern Movement, Albini acquired an extraordinary ability to create a practical synthesis, applied to buildings that are as concrete in reality as they are "ethereal" in concept. Already in the 1930's his objects stood out by virtue of their very personal poetic, united with an intrinsic technological and structural geniality. In the radio of 1938, the object has been released from its traditional furniture, the support consisting in two simple sheets of glass, from which the uncovered apparatus is suspended. |
 Fiorenza
armchair (1955 prod. Arflex) |
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His vision of interior decoration as design is more exhaustively expressed in his home in Milan, particularly in the bookease (1939-1949): a tensile structure in wood, with steel cables as tie-beams, brass hooks and glass shelves: all designed with painstaking attention to the smallest details. The architect's refined attention for the detail in the executed piece was particularly well exploited in his projects for public constructions, mass produced furniture (although semi-craftsman's work) and above all in the unique designs of exhibition and museum areas: everything designed together with Franca Helg since 1952. Albini's work has been defined "smooth, hard, precise, acute, essential": certainly all adjectives well suited to his objects; another, simpler one could be added: that of "human". When requested to design - twice - a doorhandle, Albini and Helg have in both cases presented the same answer, realized by Olivari: Agata and Ambra are characterized by a form as organic as it is perfectly calibrated for the hand. |