Tito Agnoli Biography
Tito Agnoli was born in Lima, Peru, in 1931 to an Italian family. He returned to Italy after the war. Painter by training (he studied with Sironi), in 1949 he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture, where he graduated in 1959 and was assistant to Gio Ponti and Cardo De Darli. However, already at the beginning of the 1950s he began an intense professional activity in the field of design. He designs, among others, for Arflex, Cinova, Lema, Matteo Grassi, Molteni, Montina, Oluce, Pierantonio Bonacina, Poltrona Frau, Schiffini, Ycami. Notified several times at the Compasso d'Oro, in 1986 he won the gold medal at the Neocon in Chicago. He died in Milan in February 2012. Some of his pieces are preserved in the permanent collection of the MoMa in New York.