MUSEO NACIONAL THYSSEN-BORNEMISZA
Una flor es el inicio de una bonita historia
Sin embargo, no queremos hacer solos este camino. Por eso te invitamos a formar parte del cuidado y conservación de una de las obras maestras más icónicas de la colección permanente del museo: Porcelana china con flores, de Jacques Linard.
AND.... GABRIELLA CRESPI, ITALIAN DESIGNER
In the year that Italian designer Gabriella Crespi would have turned 100, and 50 years after its initial conception, GUBI is putting the Bohemian 72 Collection into production for the first time. The collection is the beginning of a new collaboration with Archivio Gabriella Crespi and reflects the harmony between Crespi’s artistic, bohemian vision and her love of travel and GUBI’s confident curations and global outlook.
Born in 1922, Italian artist and designer Gabriella Crespi would have turned 100 this year. Throughout her extraordinary career in the design world, she moved effortlessly among both European royalty and the Hollywood jet set. Her indisputable glamour and sophisticated sense of style made her a muse to the fashion designer Valentino, and brought the likes of Audrey Hepburn, Gianni Versace, and Hubert de Givenchy into her social circle
Crespi’s aesthetic was characterized by dualities, pairing modernist
functionality with an eye for the baroque, and shifting between clean lines and
sensuous curves.
As a designer, it was her gift for streamlined
forms and lavish material finishes that won her a dedicated following and saw
her become a coveted partner to prestigious fashion houses ranging from Dior to
Stella McCartney.
When she died aged 95 in 2017, she left behind
a repertoire of more than two thousand pieces, spanning furniture, jewelry, and
sculpture – all imbued with an eclectic style that embraced both the
organically whimsical and the formally geometric.
Crespi’s daughter Elisabetta Crespi now heads
up Archivio Gabriella Crespi. “My mother was utterly Milanese,” she says. “She
had extraordinary taste, stemming from her inner passions and bohemian
lifestyle. She was naturally elegant and didn’t follow mainstream fashion;
instead, she favored a cultivated simplicity in her aesthetic. She was modern,
daring - almost radical in her propositions. From her innate alluring qualities
to the inviting furniture she designed, everything was sophisticated yet
unconventional, with a warm, human, and sensuous feel to it.”
Crespi's refined lounge lifestyle
To honor this inspiring and extraordinary
woman, GUBI is proud to introduce the Bohemian 72 Collection. Elegant,
flexible, and refined, this collection is the distillation of Crespi’s vision
of a versatile rattan furniture family for what she called her ‘house of the
sun’. The pinnacle of the jet-set bohemian lounge lifestyle, Bohemian 72 brings
together Crespi’s interest in natural materials, her fascination with stacked
sculptural forms, and her curiosity about Eastern cultures and philosophies,
honed over years of travel.
During her lifetime, these exclusive pieces
were only ever produced for private clients, but today, 50 years after they
were first conceived, GUBI has worked from Crespi’s original drawings to bring
an extraordinary collection into production for the first time. In these iconic
rattan furniture designs, a worldly Milanese sophistication is conjured from
one of nature’s most humble-seeming materials.
Crespi designed the Bohemian 72 Collection in the spring of 1972 from the terrace of her home in Milan. Alongside the renowned ‘Rising Sun’ and ‘Five Positions’ Collections, Bohemian 72 was part of Crespi’s wider ‘Bamboo Collection’, designed between 1972 and 1975. Comprising a lounge chair, three-seater sofa, ottoman and floor lamp, the collection is the culmination of Crespi’s career-long mission to create furniture that seamlessly unites indoor and outdoor living.
Distinctive and highly luxurious take on lounge furniture
Crespi designed the Bohemian 72 Collection in
the spring of 1972 from the terrace of her home in Milan. Alongside the
renowned ‘Rising Sun’ and ‘Five Positions’ Collections, Bohemian 72 was part of
Crespi’s wider ‘Bamboo Collection’, designed between 1972 and 1975. Comprising
a lounge chair, three-seater sofa, ottoman and floor lamp, the collection is
the culmination of Crespi’s career-long mission to create furniture that
seamlessly unites indoor and outdoor living.
Drawn to rattan for its strength and
versatility, she conceived these pieces at a time when the material was very
much in vogue within the high-society circles in which she moved, viewed as the
height of interior sophistication. Her decision to use repeating layers of
vertically coiled rattan vines, however, was unusual for the time, and results
in a distinctive and highly luxurious take on lounge furniture that has proven
truly timeless.
“Gabriella Crespi had a huge talent for navigating the spaces between indoor
and outdoor and never let anything block the light and air flowing through her
own home. It is our pride and privilege to be bringing the work of such a
design icon into production for more people to enjoy.”
MARIE KIRSTINE SCHMIDT, CMO AT GUBI
https://gubi.com/designers/gabriella-crespi
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