Designer · Italy · 1921–1976
Alberto Rosselli
Alberto Rosselli (1921–1976) – Italian architect and designer, founder of “Stile Industria” and first ADI president; designed for Cassina, Arflex, Saporiti.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1921–1976
- Country
- Italy
Alberto Rosselli was born on 23 June 1921 in Palermo. From 1943, he was interned in Switzerland, where he met Ernesto Nathan Rogers. In 1947, he obtained his architecture degree from the Politecnico di Milano. From 1949, he ran the “Disegno per l’industria” column in “Domus”, and from 1954 to 1963 he published and edited the “Stile Industria” magazine. He co-founded the Compasso d’Oro award (1954) and the ADI association, of which he was the first president (1956–1957).
For Cassina, he designed chair 684 (1951); for Arflex, between 1959 and 1962, among others, the Condor and Airone models and the Ibis chair; and for Kartell, tables (1967). For Saporiti, from the late 1960s to the first half of the 1970s, designs included Moby Dick, Jumbo, Play, Jarana, P800 and Confidential.
With Isao Hosoe, he developed Meteor (1970) for Fiat-Orlandi, which was awarded the Compasso d’Oro in 1970. His Mobile house design was created in 1972; that same year, he took part in the “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” exhibition at MoMA in New York. He died on 10 July 1976 in Milan.
Key designs
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Chair 684
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Ibis, Condor, Airone
Ibis chair and other models
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Tables
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Meteor
with Isao Hosoe; Compasso d’Oro 1970
