Giotto Stoppino
Giotto Stoppino (1926-2011), a key figure in Italian Neoliberty, made himself known at the '54 Triennale with a series of furniture in curved plywood. An innovation in "response" to the Scandinavian furniture now in vogue in Italy: the made in Italy reacts with new ideas and materials applied to ergonomic shapes. Stoppino began a fruitful collaboration with designers Vittorio Gregotti and Lodovico Meneghetti until the 1960s (the three opened a studio in Novara), creating innovative furniture, such as the lightweight reed armchairs for Bonacina of '61. The 1970s marked the success of his metal furniture: the exhibition of the 537 lamp for Arteluce in the exhibition "Italy: the New Domestic Landscape" at the MoMA in New York in 1972, and the Compasso d'Oro for the golden Sheraton sideboard in 1979.
