Biography
The Italian architect, furniture and lighting designer Gae Aulenti, born in Udine, in 1927, completed her architecture studies in Milan in 1954. In the 1960s she was commissioned to design the Olivetti store in Paris. At the height of her career, in 1980, she created the designs for the interior of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris' Gare d'Orsay train station and in 1982 she designed the Musée d'Art Moderne in the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. With the emphasis on structure combined with formal elegance, Aulenti's furniture and lighting designs made a significant contribution to the fame of so-called Italian Bel Design in the 1960s and 1970s. She passed away in Milan in 2012.
