Onorina Tomasin-Brion

Onorina "Rina" Tomasin-Brion (1919 Santa Giustina in Colle – 2002 Milan) was an Italian entrepreneur and business manager.

[1][2] She was born in Santa Giustina in Colle,[1] in the Province of Padua, in 1919, into a family of merchants from the town who owned a haberdashery.

In 1939, during a train journey to Castelfranco Veneto, she met Giuseppe Brion [it], a RadioMarelli worker, whom she married in the same year and moved to Milan.

The best designers of the time worked there such as Marco Zanuso, Richard Sapper, the brothers Achille, Livio, and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Mario Bellini and Franco Albini.

[1][5] She was a director of the Banca Cattolica del Veneto and vice president of the Lombard section of the National Federation of the Knights of Labour.