Italian architect and designer who created the Musée d'Orsay from a railway station Gae Aulenti, the Italian architect of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and a prolific designer of furniture, lighting and theatre sets, has died aged 84. Aulenti was one of the few women working in architecture and design in postwar Italy and her talents found a vast range of outlets, from showrooms for Fiat and Olivetti to sets for La Scala, the opera house in Milan, to private villas for the rich. But it is for...
Italian architect and designer who created the Musée d'Orsay from a railway station Gae Aulenti, the Italian architect of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and a prolific designer of furniture, lighting and theatre sets, has died aged 84. Aulenti was one of the few women working in architecture and design in postwar Italy and her talents found a vast range of outlets, from showrooms for Fiat and Olivetti to sets for La Scala, the opera house in Milan, to private villas for the rich. But it is for...
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