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Vico Magistretti (* 1920 in Milan; † 2006 in Milan), studied architecture and urban planning at
the Champ Universitaire Italien de Lausanne in Switzerland and at the Polytechkinica in Milan. He
started his career creating low cost furniture for those displaced in World War II before moving
onto the design of mass produced furniture and lighting. For all in plastic. Vico Magistretti
always attached great importance to high quality workmanship. For a design solution to be long-lived
and of high quality, Vico Magistretti felt it had to be both beautiful and useful. A testament to
this ethos is the fact of that an estimated 80% of Magistretti's designed products are still in
production, including such classics as his Maui Chair range for Kartell. A dozen or so of his pieces
are in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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