In their imagining an object functional to the gesture of gripping a lever to trigger an action that transforms the space by opening or closing, Franco Albini and Franca Helg designed a handle with the lightness of a bird’s wing, and the profile of a flower. They travelled a road directed toward the expression of organic shapes. The Agata handle reflects their keen search for a point of equilibrium between one thing and its opposite – between a sensual organic mood and geometric linearity; between solidity and lightness; between a precise graphic mark and the volumetric consistency of the material.
MATERIALBrass
TYPOLOGYRound
— La Rinascente: scala, Roma 1957
— Franco Albini e Franca Helg
Among ergonomic handles, this is a classic of good Italian design.
— Franco Albini, Tre Pezzi poltrona, Poggi 1959
— Franco Albini, Margherita, poltrona, Vittorio Bonacina 1956
— Franco Albini, Fiorenza poltrona, Arflex 1952-1955
— Linea 1 della Metropolitana Milanese: corrimano (F.Albini, F.Helg, A.Piva, B. Noorda) 1962-1964
— Franco Albini, “Stanza per un Uomo”, VI Triennale di Milano 1936
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