# Vico  Magistretti artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/vico-magistretti/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T10:55:18.668Z
Quality: low confidence, thin sources

## Artist identity

- Nationality: Italian
- Common media: Industrial design, Furniture design, Mass-produced furniture and appliances, Architecture

## Portrait

![Vico  Magistretti](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Vico_Magistretti_ritratto.jpg)
Vico Magistretti · see-source-page
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vico_Magistretti

## About Vico  Magistretti

Vico Magistretti was an Italian architect and designer whose practice extended across architecture, industrial design, furniture, and teaching. An early architectural association with Ernesto Nathan Rogers included work connected with the experimental QT8 district in Milan. Magistretti later became closely identified with designs intended for production, working with manufacturers such as Cassina, Artemide, and Oluce. His designs received honors that included the Compasso d'Oro and the Minerva Medal in 1986. Collectors therefore encounter his name primarily through twentieth-century design and decorative-art contexts, particularly where manufacturer, production history, and the identity of a specific model can matter. The limited source pack does not support assigning a formal artistic movement or supplying verified life dates. It does, however, establish a practice joining architectural thinking with commercially produced furniture and appliances, which helps distinguish relevant design objects from unrelated works that may share a similar name.

## Common works and media

Collectors are most likely to encounter Magistretti through mass-produced furniture, industrial-design objects, and material associated with his architectural and design practice. Manufacturer identification is especially relevant because the source pack connects his production work with Cassina, Artemide, and Oluce. The current Appraisily matches also use broad categories such as decorative art and editions, works on paper, paintings, and mixed media, but those classifications require verification against the individual lot because they may not accurately describe his documented design output.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal of an object attributed to Vico Magistretti should begin by identifying its design, manufacturer, production date, materials, dimensions, and any model or edition information. Condition, restoration, inscriptions, labels, provenance, exhibition history, and catalogue references can affect comparison with public sales. Appraisily's collected page reports only a small matched dataset and gives conflicting totals, so its observed records should not be treated as a complete market history or as a price forecast. Comparables are most useful when they concern the same model or closely related production, with similar age, condition, and documented attribution. Reported prices may also differ in whether buyer premiums and fees are included.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Small or conflicting datasets are treated as preliminary evidence rather than a complete valuation record.

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vico_Magistretti
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/vico-magistretti/
- Wikimedia: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Vico_Magistretti_ritratto.jpg