Rodolfo Bonetto
Olivari Designers
Rodolfo Bonetto
Olivari Designers
MILANO, 1929-1991
A professional jazz drummer and self-taught designer, around age 30 Bonetto interrupts his musical career and starts to collaborate with companies linked to the automobile industry, body shops, and component manufacturers.
Polo
1991 - Out of production
— Autovox Linea 1, 1969
— Rodolfo Bonetto
In 1946 he wins the first of seven Golden Compass Awards for his Sfericlock for Veglia Borletti. His automobile and appliance designs are so innovative that Thomas Maldnado assigns him a professorship at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, in charge of the first car design course.
— Aki portaombrelli, B-line 1975
— Boomerang poltrona, Flexform 1968
— Quattro Quarti tavolini, Bernini 1969