Franca Helg

Franca Helg (21 February 1920 – 4 June 1989) was an Italian designer and architect. She also had a career teaching at Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia and the Polytechnic of Milan. She collaborated with Franco Albini from 1945 through 1977.

Biography Graduated from the Politecnico di Milano in 1945, Franca Helg was active both in the field of architectural planning and in industrial design, with important project interventions often in collaboration with Franco Albini, with whom she was for long associated professionally, from 1951 until the death of Albini in 1977. After which she worked with Marco Albini and Antonio Piva.

Among her works, the Roman stores La Rinascente, in Piazza Fiume, the Terme Luigi Zoja of Salsomaggiore, the Museo degli Eremitani in Padova.

Works

designed furniture and houseware for Poggi, Bonacina, and San Lorenzo ) Molino Dorino station of the Metropolitana di Milano (1980–1985) Museo degli Eremitani in the convent complex annexed to the church by the same name (1982–1985) designed furniture with and without Franco Albini