Osvaldo Borsani was an Italian designer and architect that studied Fine Arts at the Academia di Belle Arti di Brera and Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan, graduating in 1936. Early in his career, he worked in his family’s furniture company, Atelier Varedo, and participated in 1933 in Triennale with his project Casa Minima, which received a silver medal. In 1953, together with his brother Fulgenzio, he co-founded Tecno,  to incorporate modern manufacturing techniques that would deliver high-quality furniture to a larger international market.  Tecno initially produced Borsani’s own designs, but later collaborated with major designers such as Gio Ponti, Gae Aulenti, Vico Magistretti, and Carlo De Carli among other. Early furniture pieces by Tecno can be found in the permanent collections of the MoMA in New York, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Trienalle di Milano Museum, and the Neue Sammlung in Munich.