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Gaetana "Gae" Emilia Aulenti (pronounced [ˈɡaːe auˈlɛnti]; 4 December 1927 – 31 October 2012) was an Italian architect and designer. Aulenti began her career in the early 1950s, establishing herself as one of the few prominent female architects in post-war Italy .
Piazza Gae Aulenti is a pedestrian square in the city of Milan. Elevated and circular in shape, it has a diameter of 100 meters and is located in the Isola neighbourhood of Milan , in front of the entrance to the Milan Porta Garibaldi Station and just outside the eastern edge of the Milan Business Center.
In 1981, the Italian architect Gae Aulenti was chosen to design the interior including the internal arrangement, decoration, furniture and fittings of the museum. The arrangement of the galleries she designed was elaborate and inhabited the three main levels that are under the museum's barrel vault atrium.
The glass and wood cocktail table is Gae Aulenti for Fontana Arte, the curtains and rods are Belgian from The Shade Store. Above, hangs an Astep VV Cinquanta suspension lamp. Salon.
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The new $160.5 million project, designed by Gae Aulenti, [11] introduced an indoor sky-lit court to provide a dramatic central core to the museum. Removing some interior walls, Aulenti created a sense of openness to facilitate visitor movement and the display of the artwork.
It was expanded in 2011, with the addition of new terminal facilities designed by the Italian architect Gae Aulenti and part-funded by a government grant awarded to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy.
In 1991 Prince Carlo Caracciolo, an Italian newspaper baron, and his wife Violante Visconti bought the estate, and hired architect Gae Aulenti to convert its 17th-century barn into a villa. Violante Visconti decided to create a garden around the villa, originally with the help of Lauro Marchetti, curator of the nearby Garden of Ninfa , and from ...