Tommaso Buzzi

Biography

Boen in Sondrio (Italy) in 1900, he died in Rapallo in 1981. After getting an architecture degree at the Milan Polytechnic in 1923, he worked with Gio Ponti, Pietro Chiesa, Giovanni Martelli and Paolo Venini; together with them he established "Il labirinto", a movement to promote modern decorative arts. He was a full professor in the Faculty of Architecture in Milan from 1930 to 1954. He has written for the magazine "Domus" and took over from Napoleone Martinuzzi as Venini & Co. Director from 1932 to 1933.