Angelo Mangiarotti (Milan, 1921–2012) was an Italian architect and designer. He took his degree in architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1948. After working in the United States, where collaborated with such famous talents as Frank Lloyd Wright and Walter Gropius, he returned home and embarked on a career that made him one of the protagonists of Italian 20th-century design and architecture.
In 1953 Mangiarotti established his own design office in Milan to work on a wide range of projects – architecture, industrial design, furniture and the applied arts. His approach was distinguished by an interest in materials, how they could be used, and the relationship between form and function, elegance and innovation.
Mangiarotti collaborated with the prominent design companies Artemide, Danese, Knoll, Skipper, Tisettanta and Vistosi, creating furniture, lamps and objects that have gone down in design history. Mangiarotti taught at several important design schools – the Istituto Superiore di Disegno Industriale in Venice, the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, and the École Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Many of his projects belong to the permanent collections of international museums such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Triennale di Milano in Milan. During his career he was awarded numerous prizes including the Compasso d'Oro for lifetime achievement in 1994.
Angelo Mangiarotti's oeuvre reflects an inventive design vision in which aesthetics, functionality and technical prowess are combined, forming a significant legacy for contemporary design.