The Italian architect and designer Cini Boeri championed economy and functionalism as a philosophy to make the world a better placeCini Boeri , born Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno, was an Italian architect and designer known for her interest in functionalism and economy. She believed that beauty was the result of function and only took pleasure from adding useful, long-lasting architecture and design to the world.
Elegance was always the product of Boeri’s economy. This can be seen particularly in the Lunario table series of 1970 produced by Gavina, where Boeri was a contributing designer, and distributed by Knoll. The marketing images show the oval glass table tops of various sizes echoing each other like ripples of water or light – in their simplicity, the tables echo the elements essential to our human existence.
Understanding practicality and productivity as a young woman, perhaps allowed her to succeed in a society that often discounted the usefulness of women in male dominated jobs such as architecture. When working for Zanuso, Boeri designed the interior of a refuge for single mothers in the Lorenteggio neighbourhood of Milan. Her design provided a bed, with storage and a simple partition wall.