BOHEMIAN 72
BY GABRIELLA CRESPI
Milanese icons of lounge lifestyle revived in rattan
ELEGANT, FLEXIBLE AND REFINED
The Bohemian 72 Collection brings together Gabriella Crespi’s interest in natural materials, her fascination with stacked sculptural forms, and her curiosity about Eastern cultures and philosophies, honed over years of travel.During her lifetime, these exclusive pieces were only ever produced for private clients, but today, 50 years after they were first conceived, in the year she would have turned 100, GUBI has worked from Crespi’s original drawings to bring an extraordinary collection of iconic furniture designs into production for the first time.
LOUNGE CHAIR, THREE-SEATER SOFA, OTTOMAN AND FLOOR LAMP
In the Bohemian 72 Collection, GUBI has distilled Crespi’s vision of a versatile furniture family for her house of the sun, conjuring a worldly Milanese sophistication from one of nature’s most humble-seeming materials. Elegant, flexible, and refined, the collection is the pinnacle of the jet-set bohemian lounge lifestyle.
GABRIELLA CRESPI
Born in 1922, Italian artist and designer Gabriella Crespi would recently have turned 100 years. Throughout her extraordinary career in the design world, she moved effortlessly among both European royalty and the Hollywood jet set.
Crespi’s goal was to create a flexible rattan seating collection that feels equally at home in the city or the country, at theseaside or high on a mountain slope, breaking down the distinctions between interior and exterior wherever it was placed.
THE HEIGHT OF INTERIOR SOPHISTICATION
Crespi designed all four pieces in the spring of 1972, from the terrace of her home in Milan. Drawn to rattan for its strength and versatility, she conceived these pieces at a time when the material was very much in vogue within the high-society circles in which she moved, viewed as the height of interior sophistication. Her decision to use repeating layers of vertically coiled rattan vines, however, was unusual for the time, and results in a distinctive and highly luxurious take on lounge furniture that has proved truly timeless.
Her great ambition, she once said, was to create ‘a house of the sun’ – an environment that radiated warmth, light and sophistication.
GUBI GOES AL FRESCO
Designed to move as easily between indoor and outdoor spaces as we do, GUBI’s new transterior furniture and lighting features the aesthetic of Gabriella Crespi’s refined Bohemian ’72 Collection loved by the stars of stage and screen. GUBI adds dynamism to GamFratesi’s TS Table and Bill Curry’s innovative Obello Lamp, reinventing them as portable accessories that follow us wherever we go, bringing the look and feel of the indoors outside.