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Founded in 1954, Zanotta is recognized as one of the major protagonists in the history of Italian Design. The design of its products has always been carried out in collaboration with internationally renowned architects and designers such as Achille Castiglioni, Gae Aulenti, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Carlo Mollino and Ross Lovegrove. The technologies used for production are numerous, in line with the company philosophy aimed at research and experimentation.

Born in Milan in 1903, he graduated in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic in 1926. A protagonist of Italian Rationalism, he was a founding member of the Miar group and participated in the Expositions of Rational Architecture in Rome in 1928 and 1931. In 1933 he collaborated in the drafting of the ‘Athens Charter’ as an Italian delegate to the International Congress of Modern Architecture. Active in the architectural and urban planning competitions of the 1930s, he was also involved in the search for innovative solutions for furniture and furniture design. In 1945, appointed Extraordinary Commissioner of the VIII Triennale by the CLN, he promoted the study for the realisation of the Quartiere sperimentale (QT8) in Milan. He took part in the direction of the magazine ‘Metron’ from 1945, was one of the founders of the Movimento Studi Architettura in 1946 and, from 1953, was a member of the Governing Council of the Istituto Nazionale di Urbanistica. In his last years he devoted himself to teaching, which he had been prevented from doing during the Fascist period. He died in Milan in 1973.