Franco Poli is an Italian designer, mostly recognised for his furniture creations. He taught design at the historical Accademia di Belle arti in Venice until 1996 and is a visiting professor at the Politecnico di Milano and at the U.I.A. in Florence. Poli has won countless prizes of has works in the most prestigeous of Museums including the Denver Art Museum and Fonds National d’Art Contemporain in Paris. Franco Poli designer door handles are unique in that no rose is present resulting in a form that has true simplicity.