Con assoluta autonomia. Cini Boeri

Cini Boeri, sometimes simply known as “la Cini”, born Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno, was a Milanese designer, but also a partisan messenger, an independent, curious and ironic woman, sharp and sensitive. Through the materials in her private archive and numerous personal accounts, Cristina Moro traces the different aspects of Cini Boeri, the places of her affections, between Piazza Sant’Ambrogio and the island of La Maddalena, and the tireless desire to design objects and spaces that would encourage the inhabitants to be independent and live as happily as possible.

The volume is part of the OILÀ series, edited by Chiara Alessi, which presents the stories of leading women of the twentieth century. Female figures who, on the Italian and international creative scene (from design to fashion, architecture, music, illustration, graphics, photography and literature) were distinguished in fields and occupations that have always been considered the prerogative of men. The books, designed to be read aloud from beginning to end in forty-five minutes – a short journey – are stories of people viewed through a special lens on their biographies, works, private lives and public achievements.

The graphic design is by Studio Sonnoli.