Designer · Italy · 1922–2007
Dino Gavina
Dino Gavina (1922–2007) – Italian entrepreneur, designer and publisher, founder of Gavina, Flos, Simon and Paradisoterrestre.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1922–2007
- Country
- Italy
Dino Gavina was born on 7 November 1922 in San Giovanni in Persiceto and died on 6 April 2007 in Bologna. In the second half of the 1940s, he prepared stage sets and props at the La Soffitta theatre in Bologna. In 1953, he opened a workshop producing, among other things, jeep bodies, upholstery fabric for railway carriages and interior furnishings.
He is one of the most important figures in the Italian furniture and design industry; he founded Gavina SpA, Flos, Simon and Paradisoterrestre. He was a friend of Marcel Duchamp, and in 1967 opened the Centro Duchamp laboratory in San Lazzaro near Bologna, combining art with industrial production and hosting, among others, Man Ray and Sebastián Matta.
