Marco Zanuso was an Italian architect, designer, urban planner and academic. Considered one of the founding fathers of Italian industrial design, after World War II he made a decisive contribution to the debate on the "modern movement" in architecture and design and was one of the very first to take an interest in the problems of product industrialization and the application of new materials and technologies to domestic furniture and everyday objects such as radios, televisions, telephones and sewing machines.

His works have been awarded on numerous occasions, including with seven Compasso d'Oro and six prizes from the Milan Triennale, and have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the Triennale's permanent design collection.