Claudio Vender

Background

Claudio Vender (Milan, 20 March 1904 – Saronno, 23 September 1986) was an Italian architect. His father Vezio, Marquis of Termeno, was a chemical engineer and entrepreneur who died when Claudio was 15. He enrolled at the Brera academy in 1918 and took his architecture degree at the academy in Bologna in 1922.

Signature Style

Italian Wikipedia says Vender was very active in the 1930s, a period whose projects Gio Ponti often published in the magazine Domus, and that his clear architectural language matured with a house in Via Col Moschin and the Palazzo Zanoletti in Milan, both from 1939. The works it lists range from apartment blocks, villas and public buildings to factories, funerary monuments and furnishings.

Notable Works

• Competition entries including the Government Palace in Sondrio (1930), the covered market in Como (1932), the railway station in Florence (1937) and the Armed Forces building in Rome (1938)
• The house in Via Col Moschin and the Palazzo Zanoletti, Milan, 1939
• For Flexform, the Moka chair, table and display cabinet, credited to him and Mario Asnago

Legacy

After Mario Asnago retired in 1971, Vender continued the practice with his son Mario and with a colleague named in the sources as Mario Morganti or Mario Moganti, in an office in Via Vincenzo Monti in Milan.