Collection: Guglielmo Ulrich

Guglielmo Ulrich (1904-1977), architect, designer, interior decorator, and painter, is undoubtedly one of the most interesting figures in the history of modern Italian furniture. Spanning the late 1920s and 1970s, his work is a fundamental part of the very evolution of Italian architectural culture and the very birth of an Italian design identity. Milanese by birth, he was a leading figure in that Lombard school that saw the best examples of "twentieth-century" and "rationalist" architecture and furniture.

Linked to Gio Ponti and to that whole group that, gravitating around the magazine "Domus," advocated a strong modernization of taste and the home, Ulrich nevertheless knew how to maintain a firm relationship with tradition and in particular with the eighteenth-nineteenth-century bourgeois tradition, of which he was an elegant modern interpreter. This ability of his to posit, at a time of generalized rupture, a firm relationship between history and modernity, between tradition and innovation, makes him a singular character who deserves a leading place in the history of Italian and European design.