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Designer
Piero Bottoni
Piero Bottoni was born in Milan in 1903 and took his degree at the Milan Polytechnic's architecture school in 1926. Zanotta's designer page names him among the protagonists of Italian Rationalism and a founding member of the Milan-based…
Biography
Background
Piero Bottoni was born in Milan in 1903 and took his degree at the Milan Polytechnic's architecture school in 1926. Zanotta's designer page names him among the protagonists of Italian Rationalism and a founding member of the Milan-based Miar group. He died in Milan in 1973.
Signature Style
Zanotta says he took part in many of the key architecture and planning competitions of the 1930s while constantly seeking new furniture and decorating solutions.
Notable Works
- Comacina writing desk (1930, Zanotta)
- Fenice table (1936, reconstructed by Zanotta for the Milan Furniture Fair 2016)
- Ara Fenice (Zanotta)
- QT8, the experimental district in Milan whose studies he promoted from 1945
Legacy
As an Italian delegate at the International Congress of Modern Architecture he helped draft the Athens Charter in 1933. He was a director of Metron magazine, helped found the Architecture Studios Movement in 1946, sat on the board of the National Town Planning Institute from 1953 and taught in his later years.
