Lina Bo Bardi
Lina Bo Bardi was born in Italy in 1914. After graduating from the University of Rome, she moved to Milan where she became assistant to Giò Ponti, Director of the Triennale Design Museum and Domus Magazine, at the time. Economic difficulties and the lack of professional opportunities during the world war II period, led Bo Bardi to take up illustration for newspapers and magazines such as Stile, Grazia, Belleza, Tempo, Vetrina and Illustrazione Italiana.

She became the editor of the Quaderni di Domus. In 1947 Lina Bo Bardi moved to Brazil where she established her studio. Over the next 30 years, she participated in an astonishing number and variety of projects. She designed private homes (both interiors and exteriors), including her own São Paulo home, the Glass House (1951), an early example of the application of reinforced concrete in residential architecture. Bo Bardi designed modern furniture in plywood and local Brazilian woods, which she admired for their inherent “strength” and “beauty”.