Designer · Italy · 1922–2004
Giandomenico Belotti
Giandomenico Belotti (1922–2004) – Italian designer and architect from Bergamo, designer of the Spaghetti chair for Alias.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1922–2004
- Country
- Italy
Giandomenico Belotti was born in Bergamo on 1 December 1922 and died there in 2004. He studied at ISIA in Monza and the Brera art school, then studied architecture at Politecnico di Milano from 1941, obtaining his degree at IUAV in Venice. He worked in historic building conservation, urban furniture and industrial design.
His most important design is the Spaghetti chair (1980, originally Odessa), made of steel and PVC and produced by Alias; it is held in the collections of MoMA and the Triennale Design Museum in Milan. He also worked with Foppapedretti and Lucente, among others. As director of the urban planning and design laboratory of the SCP cooperative, he carried out projects in Argentina, Burkina Faso and Mozambique, among other countries.
