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Triennalle Milano Permanent exhibition In the spaces of Sala Sottsass, on the second floor of Triennale Milano, the central core of Ettore Sottsass’s Casa Lana has been reconstructed and is on permanent display. An interior of a private residence that the great architect and designer designed around the mid-1960s in Milan, imagining to create “a little square in which one turns and meets.” The arrangement of the room and its philological reconstruction were the subject of an important collective work, an in-depth study by the archive and restoration laboratory of Triennale Milano, in which Luca Cipelletti, who oversaw the arrangement in the space, and ChristophLeggi altro →

Triennale, Milano, Italy Through April 23, 2023 Architect, designer, sculptor and academic, Angelo Mangiarotti was a leading figure in international architecture and urban planning, one of the few Italian masters able to export his design philosophy abroad. The exhibition is one of the most comprehensive and exhaustive retrospectives ever held on the figure of the Milanese architect and traces more than sixty years of activity through a wide selection of works, projects, documents and materials, many of which have never been exhibited before, made available by the Angelo Mangiarotti Foundation. Triennale MilanoLeggi altro →

Museum Für Gestaltung Zürich Until 26 March, 2023 The Swiss design pioneer Willy Guhl (1915-2004) designed world-famous seating furniture such as the Eternit beach chair and Europe’s first plastic seat shell. For decades, Guhl conveyed a holistic design approach geared to people and their needs: durability, functionality and reduction to the essentials characterize his homely interiors and well thought-out everyday objects. As a teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts (today Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK), he showed generations of interior designers and product designers how good design is recognized with all the senses. The exhibition presents Willy Guhl’s work using design processes,Leggi altro →

11 maggio – 12 settembre 2021 The retrospective, realized in collaboration with Fondazione Vico Magistretti and curated by Gabriele Neri, brings together the heritage La retrospettiva, realizzata in collaborazione con Fondazione Vico Magistretti e curata da Gabriele Neri, riunisce il patrimonio di disegni, schizzi, modelli, fotografie, prototipi e pezzi originali conservati nell’archivio dell’architetto e designer milanese. La mostra ripercorre l’intero percorso progettuale di Magistretti, iniziato proprio al Palazzo dell’Arte negli anni del secondo dopoguerra. Suddivisa in sezioni tematiche, l’esposizione presenta per la prima volta l’opera di Vico Magistretti in maniera unitaria, dall’architettura agli allestimenti, dal design al disegno urbano, insieme ai numerosi contatti internazionali. IlLeggi altro →

Enzo Mari Curated di Hans Ulrich Obrist con Francesca Giacomelli Enzo Mari ci lascia con una mostra che documenta i suoi oltre 60 anni di attività. Lui uno dei principali maestri e teorici del design italiano. Il progetto esposiivo è articolato in una sezione storica ed in una serie di contributi di artisti e progettisti internazionali — Adelita Husni-Bey, Tacita Dean, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mimmo Jodice, Dozie Kanu, Adrian Paci, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Danh Vo, Nanda Vigo, Virgil Abloh per lo speciale prgetto di mercahandising — invitati a rendere omaggio a Mari attraverso installazioni site specific e nuovi lavori commissionati per l’occasione. Contributo particolareLeggi altro →