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Gae Aulenti Dining Room Sets

Italian, 1927-2012

The Italian architect and designer Gae Aulenti will forever be best remembered for her work with museums, in particular her 1980–86 renovation of a Beaux Arts Paris train station to create the galleries of the Musée d’Orsay. Aulenti — whose first name, short for Gaetana, is pronounced “guy” — should also be recalled for her tough intellectual spirit and for working steadily when few women found successful architectural careers in postwar Italy.

After she graduated from the Milan Polytechic in 1954, Aulenti opened an architectural office. She also joined the staff of the progressive architectural magazine Casabella, whose editorial line was that the establishment, orthodox modernism of Le Corbusier and the Bauhaus, had outlived it usefulness. When their movement for fresh approaches to architecture and design received a sympathetic hearing, Aulenti found patrons — most prominently Gianni Agnelli, of Fiat, who later employed her to renovate the Palazzo Grassi in Venice for use as an arts exhibition space.

Commissions for showrooms and other corporate spaces brought Aulenti to furniture design. She felt that furniture should never dominate a room. Her chairs and sofas — low-slung, with rounded enameled metal frames and ample seats — and tables, particularly her 1972 marble Jumbo coffee table for Knoll, project solidity and sturdiness. In lighting design, however, Aulenti is bravura.

Each work has a marvelous sculptural presence. Pieces such as her Pipistrello table lamp and Quadrifoglio pendant are a perfect marriage of organically shaped glass and high-tech fixtures. Others have a futuristic elegance — and some even have a touch of personality. Aulenti’s Pileino and La Ruspa table lamps each look almost like little robots. Her lighting pieces are an artful grace note in the career of a woman who believed in strength.

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70s Gae Aulenti Knoll Black Orsay Square Mod 54 Table + 4 Blk Leather Chairs SET
70s Gae Aulenti Knoll Black Orsay Square Mod 54 Table + 4 Blk Leather Chairs SET

70s Gae Aulenti Knoll Black Orsay Square Mod 54 Table + 4 Blk Leather Chairs SET

By Gae Aulenti, Knoll

Located in Basel, BS

The listing includes an exceptionally rare complete dining set consisting of a black square table and four matching black leather armchairs designed in 1969 for Knoll International. ...

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Gae Aulenti Locus Solus Dining Room Set in Steel and Leather by Poltronova 1970s
Gae Aulenti Locus Solus Dining Room Set in Steel and Leather by Poltronova 1970s

Gae Aulenti Locus Solus Dining Room Set in Steel and Leather by Poltronova 1970s

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Gae Aulenti dining room sets are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Gae Aulenti dining room sets, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original dining room sets by Gae Aulenti were created in the modern style in europe during the 20th century. Prices for Gae Aulenti dining room sets can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $4,808 and can go as high as $13,848, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $13,723.