Crespi Gabriella

1922 — 2017

Gabriella Crespi is the Italian artist and designer. Her furniture with futuristic forms are a reflection the sequence of time and the new style of the era. She was born in Milan. In the 1940s she studied art at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and then entered the architecture department of the Milan Polytechnic Institute. Since the 1950s Gabriella Crespi has been fond of designing small things at the junction of design and sculpture. Her debut took place in Milan with the Small Lune Collection project, which led to many years of collaboration with the Parisian Dior house.

In the 1970s, the designer lived in Cenci in Rome, the historical palazzo of the 15th century, and was engaged in the construction of furniture. Showcased her famous Plurimi collection, featuring modular coffee tables with rotating surfaces. In 1973, she began work on the new Rising Sun collection. Lampshades for table lamps in the form of sunlight made of bamboo amaze by the impeccability of the lines and show the skill of working with the material. Later Crespi added new items to the Plurimi collection and created the new Yang Yin and Sheherezade, designed the Menhir bookcase and the Ara and Lunante sculpture tables.

In 1986 Crespi went to India and lived for 20 years in the Himalayas practicing daily meditation and an ascetic lifestyle. She has published the book "In Search of Infinity — the Himalayas» in 2007. She continued to work on a series of reprints of her most famous subjects experimenting with various materials. In 2015 Ellisse and Dama tables, Z table and Yang Yin bar cabinet were presented at Salone del Mobile in Milan.

Her works were in the collections of celebrities and public figures such as the king of Saudi Arabia Faisal, the Persian Shah Reza Pahlavi, Princess Marina of Savoy, collector Gunter Sachs, Grace Kelly, George Livanos, Thomas Hoving, Audrey Hepburn and many others.

Author's Works

Fungo table lamp
Crespi Gabriella, 1973
€40,000