Italian architect and designer Cini Boeri, who created a series of iconic seating designs and was the founder of Cini Boeri Architetti, has passed away aged 96.
Cini Boeri died on Wednesday, 9 September, in her home in Milan ? the city in which she was born and lived her whole life.
Over the course of her career, Boeri collaborated with some of the biggest names in Italian design, including lighting brand Artemide and furniture makers Knoll, Magis and Arflex.
She is survived by her three sons, among them architect Stefano Boeri.
"What I consider unattainable in my mother Cini is her elegance, a sort of natural gift that covered her in every action," Stefano Boeri told Dezeen.
"Cini invented pop objects and architectures. Never boring and presumptuous and at the same time extremely elegant ? an almost impossible blend that Cini knew how to create." Cini Boeri was an Italian architect and designer
Industry figures took to social media to share an outpouring of love and respect for her and her work.
Design writer Alice Rawsthorn paid tribute to "one of the great pioneering women in Italian design and architecture", while MoMA curator Paola Antonelli tweeted: "Goodbye to Cini Boeri, formidable architect and designer, paragon of Milanese elegance and verve".

She continued to produce notable furniture designs throughout her life, including the Ghost chair, created for Fiam in 1987 from a single pane of glass.
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