Gae Aulenti obituary

Italian architect and designer who created the Musée d'Orsay from a railway station The Musée d'Orsay in Paris was created out of the Beaux Arts-style Gare d'Orsay to create a new art space. It divided opinion worldwide. Photograph: Bertrand Guay/AFP Gae Aulenti, the Italian architect of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and a prolific designer of furniture, lighting and theatre sets, has died aged 84. Aulenti was one of the few women working in architecture and design in postwar Italy and her talents found a vast range of outlets, from showrooms for Fiat and Olivetti to sets for La Scala, the opera house in Milan, to private villas for the rich. But it is for her work in museums and exhibition...