Cavour Armchairs - 1980s

Giotto Stoppino

Giotto Stoppino (1926 - 2011) was one of the most important inspirers of neoliberty. In 1968, he began to range from architecture to urban planning, up to the point of design. From 1960 he became a member of the Association for Industrial Design (ADI) and later president in the years 82-84.

Lodovico Meneghetti

Lodovico Meneghetti (1926 - 2020), Italian architect and urban planner. In 1952, he graduated in architecture in Milan, the following year he founded an urban planning, architecture and design studio, which he called "Architetti Associati Vittorio Gregotti, Lodovico Meneghetti and Giotto Stoppino". In 1956 he became councilor for town planning, public works and private construction in Novara. In 1983 he founded the "Piero Bottoni" archive: a collection of documentation on various sectors, such as architecture, urban planning and design. He engages in writing and publishes various essays on issues relating to the territory, the landscape or in any case to the architectural and urban planning culture of the place.

Vittorio Gregotti

Vittorio Gregotti (1927 - 2020), Italian architect and urban planner. He began his working career in Paris in 1947 and graduated in architecture in Milan in 1952. After his studies he continued at the BBPR studio and in 1951, collaborating with Ernesto Nathan Rogers, he inaugurated his first room at the Milan Triennale. Its products are inspired by trends such as: Neoliberty and Italian Rationalism. He won the prize at the thirteenth Milan Triennale in 1964, becoming the director of the visual arts of the Venice Biennale himself from 1974.