If the words "design" and "Milan" in close proximity make your heart skip a beat, and candy-colored melamine inspires visions of a warm and fuzzy utopia in which even a toothbrush can have aesthetic integrity, then you are already familiar with Kartell. I grew up with parents who worshipped at the altar of modern Italian design, saving old copies of Abitare for decades, so I suppose I had no choice in the matter. I still get light-headed around apple-red plastic.
If any of this means anything to you, then you already know the work of Anna Castelli Ferrieri, who died on Thursday. Ferrieri was one of the few successful women in the Italian design field. In 1949, she and her husband, Giulio Castelli, founded Kartell, which became a leading furniture company known for high-quality plastic designs.
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