artist/ GATTI

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Piero Gatti (1940, Turin – April 13, 2017, Grosseto) was an Italian designer and architect. Trained in Turin, in 1965 he founded a design and architecture studio with Cesare Paolini and Franco Teodoro, committed to an experimental and cross-disciplinary approach, combining furniture, architecture, urban planning, and visual communication.

In 1968, the trio designed the Poltrona Sacco, a soft seat with no rigid structure, filled with polystyrene beads, which challenged traditional furniture typologies and embodied the spirit of freedom and social transformation of the 1960s. This creation became a major reference point for 20th-century Italian design and was included in the collections of numerous international museums, as well as receiving the Compasso d’Oro award in 1970.

Throughout his career, Piero Gatti participated in numerous exhibitions and competitions in Italy and abroad. Later settling in Maremma, he continued his work as an architect while becoming involved in local cultural and public life, maintaining until the end an approach to design that was attentive to uses, free forms, and changes in society.