BBPR

Olivari Designers

MILANO, 1932

Gianluigi Banfi, Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti, and Ernesto Nathan Rogers found the BBPR studio in 1932. Fully in step with the European avant- gardes, they become members of International Congresses of Modern Architecture (CIAM). In 1938, racial laws force Rogers to emigrate to Switzerland. Due to their antifascist commitment, Banfi and Belgiojoso are sent to the Mauthausen concentration camp in 1944 where Banfi dies.

  • EmmaEmma1973 - Out of production
  • VelascaVelasca1956 - Out of production
— Torre Velasca, Milano, 1958
— BBPR: Gianluigi Banfi, Ludovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti e Ernesto Nathan Rogers

After WWII, BBPR promotes new architecture such as Milan’s Velasca Tower (1958) which interacts with the pre-existing environmental surroundings, thanks to Rogers’s theoretical activity.

VELASCA TOWER — SEE THE PROJECT

— Emma, Olivari, fuori produzione
— Velasca, Olivari, fuori produzione
Scrivania Olivetti Mod. Spazio, designer BBPR 1960
— Scrivania Olivetti Mod. Spazio, designer BBPR 1960

BBPR innovates the panorama of office furnishings with the Spazio series for Olivetti Synthesis, winning the 1962 Golden Compass Award.