The House of Cini Boeri tells the story of the intense life and brilliant work of architect and designer Cini Boeri, through the places she lived, the testimonies of those who knew her well, and the works she created. The House of Cini Boeri is Milan—the city where Cini Boeri was born in 1924, where she studied, and where she opened her studio in 1963. It’s the city where she always lived: first with her family of origin, then with her husband and young children, later alone with her teenage sons, and eventually by herself, in a bright and welcoming apartment open to the energy of the city. The House of Cini Boeri is the one she designed for her clients—an innovative and joyful home for young people, tired of bourgeois living rooms with rigid spaces and heavy, austere furniture. These are homes with open, fluid layouts, furniture on wheels, and filled with experimental and surprising design objects, often with whimsical names: the “Serpentone” sofa (1967), the “Bobo” (1967), the “Strips” and the “Pecorelle” (1971), and the “Botolo” (1973) for Arflex; the “Ghost” armchair (Fiam, 1987); and the “Papero” (1971) and “Lucetta” (1977) lamps for Stilnovo. These pieces of industrial design became cult objects, and earned Boeri two Compasso d’Oro awards. The House of Cini Boeri is also the architecture she designed—radical in form and evocative in name, always built in close harmony with the landscape, in various locations: the “Bunker House,” built for herself and her family in 1968 on the wild rocks of La Maddalena island in Sardinia; the “Round House” and the “Sbandata,” also on La Maddalena; and the “House in the Woods” in a birch forest in Osmate (Varese). The House of Cini Boeri is the home of a courageous protagonist of the 20th century—a pioneer, both in her choices and her designs, of a new way of living that helped revolutionize the role of women in the family, in work, and in society. The House of Cini Boeri is also the home of a strong-willed, charismatic matriarch of a large family that lovingly and devotedly preserves her memory.