Pio Manzu

(1939-1969) He was the son of the great sculptor Giacomo Manzu. 1959 he began his studies as an industrial designer joining the Hochschule fur Gestaltung at Ulm graduating with a thesis on the safe tractor. Since 1967 he worked as a consultant for Fiat, designing the City Taxi, the Autobianchi Coup and the Fiat 127. He also focused on creating other objects, like Cronotime produced by the Ritz Italora; the Parentesi lamp for Flos and the physiological armchair designed in 1967 for La Rinascente and launched by Alias in 2011 as manzu armchair.