Gabriella Crespi

Gabriella Crespi was an Italian designer. Daughter of a jewelry designer and a mechanic, she was born in Saronno in 1922 and graduated in architecture at the Polytechnic of Milan. From the 1950s he dedicated himself to creating furniture and objects that balanced design with abstract sculpture. In the 1960s she began her collaboration with Maison Dior, which led her to begin producing furniture from the following decade. He concluded his career as a designer in 1985, and then resumed in 2008 with the creation of re-editions of his old designs.