Franco Albini

Franco Albini’s style confirms the rigour of his method where the utilisation of technological processes reinforces the coherence and rationality of the synthesis pursued. Since 1949, with the furnishing of the Pirovano refuge in Cortina, he and the brothers Ezio and Roberto Poggi, artisans from Pavia, showed their intention in the production excellence of every single object, beginning with the choice of materials, primarily wood for furniture treated during open pore finishing. The collaboration with the Poggis would turn out to be long-lasting. In this context, in 1954 Albini designed the Badano project, a table or better a system, which bears the name of the client and includes the development of different configurations with the composition of the basic elements. Refined, elegant, Badano, recreated in 2020 by Codiceicona, still replicates its timeless design today and inspires different ways to use it. In Albini’s style, in his ideational process, the search for ethical justification is constant. He graduated in Architecture from Milan Polytechnic in 1929 and initially collaborated with Studio Ponti-Lancia.