Luigi Caccia Dominioni

Luigi Caccia Dominioni (7 December 1913 – 13 November 2016) was an Italian architect and furniture designer.

Luigi Caccia Dominioni
Luigi Caccia Dominioni in 2013
Born7 December 1913
Milan, Italy
Died13 November 2016(2016-11-13) (aged 102)
Milan, Italy
Alma materPolytechnic University of Milan
OccupationArchitect, furniture designer
Office building in Milan, 1953–1959
Residential building in Piazza Sant’Ambrogio, Milan, 1947–1950

Life

Caccia Dominioni was born on 7 December 1913 in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy, to Ambrogio Caccia Dominioni, a lawyer, and Maria Paravicini; the family was a noble one, with origins in Novara, in Piemonte.[1]

Caccia Dominioni graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1936, and opened a studio with two fellow-students, Livio and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni.[1] He was in the Italian army during the Second World War, but when the puppet Republic of Salò was established in 1943, he refused to recognise it and fled to Switzerland.[1] After the war he returned to Milan and, with Corrado Corradi Dell'Acqua and Ignazio Gardella, started Azucena, a company which designed both furniture and furnishings such as door-handles and lamps.[1][2][3]:182

Work

Caccia Dominioni designed many buildings in Milan, notably overseeing the internal restructuring of the Biblioteca and the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana.[1][4] Between 1976 and 1983 he worked on the Parc Saint Roman, a residential complex in Monte Carlo.[1][5]

Death

Caccia Dominioni died on 13 November 2016 in Milan, Italy.[1][2]

References
  1. [s.n.] (13 November 2016). È morto Luigi Caccia Dominioni, il grande architetto del dopoguerra Sala: «Milano gli deve molto» (in Italian). Corriere della Sera. Accessed April 2017.
  2. Mattioli, Guglielmo (14 November 2016). "Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Master of Italian Modern Design, Dies at 102". Metropolis. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  3. Renato De Fusco (2014). Made in Italy: storia del design italiano (in Italian). Firenze: Altralinea Edizioni. ISBN 9788898743179.
  4. Brandolini, Sebastiano (7 April 2014). "LUIGI CACCIA DOMINIONI TOUR A MILANO". Elle. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  5. Càccia Dominióni, Luigi (in Italian). Enciclopedie on line. Roma: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana. Accessed April 2017.
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