Italian designer Lella Vignelli, who together with husband Massimo formed the "first couple of modern design", has died aged 82.
Vignelli is reported to have passed away peacefully on 21 December 2016.
The trained architect made her name as a skilled interiors and product designer, as well as a savvy entrepreneur who drove the studio she co-founded in 1971 with Massimo, Vignelli Associates, to business success.
The Vignellis have been described as both "the first couple of modern design" and "US national icons".
As Vignelli Associates, the couple famously created branding for companies like Knoll, the Ford Motor Company, American Airlines and Bloomingdale's. The Vignellis worked regularly for Knoll, designing the brand's Handkerchief office chair in 1983. Lella Vignelli's death was announced by the Vignelli Center for Design Studies on Twitter.

"We like design to be visually powerful, intellectually elegant, and above all, timeless."

Lella Vignelli, 1934-2016 pic.twitter.com/Douk3t7CIT
? Vignelli Center (@VignelliCenter) December 22, 2016

Born on 13 August, 1934 in the Italian, Lella Vignelli studied architecture at the University of Venice and MIT. She went on to work in Milan and Chicago, where with Massimo she was involved in the founding of Unimark International ? the design consultancy that created the New York subway signage still in use today.
The creative couple co-founded Vignelli Associates in their new base in New Yo...