Gianfranco Frattini

Gianfranco Frattini was born in Padua in 1926 and graduated in architecture from the Politecnico di Milano in 1953. After working in the office of his mentor Gio Ponti he opened his own practice in Milan, and in 1956 he co-founded ADI, the Association for Industrial Design.

A great connoisseur of wood, he worked for many years with the master craftsman Pierluigi Ghianda. For Acerbis he designed the Maestro table and the Gong side tables.