
Luisa Armchair
Franco AlbiniWW-1951-M001482
Catalogue
- Year
- 1951
- Medium
- Wood and fabric
- Dimensions
- 30 5/16 x 22 1/16 x 22 7/16" (77 x 56 x 57 cm)
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Artist
- Franco Albini
Artist

Franco Albini
Franco Albini was an Italian architect and designer who pioneered a modernist approach to domestic and institutional spaces in postwar Italy. Working across furniture, interior design, and architecture, he favored spare geometries, natural materials, and rational planning that rejected both ornament and mass production. His interiors for the Palazzo Bianco in Genoa and residential commissions established a restrained aesthetic that influenced Italian design through the 1950s and 1960s. Albini's work merged functionalism with a deep attention to craft and material quality, defining a distinctly Italian modernism that prioritized livability over stylistic gesture.
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- Franco Albini
- Year
- 1951
- Medium
- Wood and fabric
- Dimensions
- 30 5/16 x 22 1/16 x 22 7/16" (77 x 56 x 57 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1951-M001482
Source
- Collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- Source
- moma
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified