Cini boeri biography of donald

Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno (1924-2020), affectionately called “Cini” throughout her life, was an architect and designer but also a partisan courier, a mother, a grandmother: an independent, curious and ironic, and sensitive woman. Through the materials of her private archive and the stories of the people who experienced Cini in her complexity, we rediscover the aspects of her figure and her thought, which found expression in her way of designing, on a large and small scale. The book Con assoluta autonomia. Cini Boeri by Cristina Moro is part of the Oilà series, edited by Chiara Alessi for Electa (2024) with graphic design by Leonardo Sonnoli, which presents a series of short “anti-heroic” biographies of women and professionals of the last century.

After the greetings by Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, Chiara Alessi, curator of the Oilà series, is in dialogue with Cristina Moro, author of the volume and curator of the Cini Boeri Archive.

History and biographies have always fascinated me. The sources of inspiration for my projects, whether of architecture or design, are often female figures. Their stories speak of talent, vision, new languages and an almost total absence of social recognition. For some years now, I have decided to link my design directly to their memory. The names of the Dampaì design objects-to-wear are a tribute to the female personalities that I feel closest to me.

One of these is the Italian architect Cini Boeri.
Here are some passages from her story that I want to remember.

To Cini

“The architect’s job is hard, and not feminine work. I don’t think it is suitable. Think about it.” It was August 1943 and the architect Giuseppe De Finetti was trying with those words to dissuade a young Cini Boeri who, fortunately, paid no attention to him, thus becoming one of the great protagonists of Italian architecture.

Maria Cristina Mariani Dameno is known by the name of Cini, a diminutive of “picini” (meaning Little Ones), which she was called by family members, and with the surname of her husband Renato Boeri to whom she was linked for 25 years and whose surname she decided to keep even after their separation.

Born in Milan in

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