Indholdsfortegnelse for 2024 / 02 i Interni

VOLUMNIA THE MEMORY OF THINGS Running until 17 February is “La memoria delle cose”, a solo show by painter Alfredo Casali curated by Massimo Ferrari in the former church of Sant’Agostino in Piacenza. Since 2018 the building has hosted Volumnia, an exhibition venue for art and innovative historical design by Enrica De Micheli. About a hundred works, comprising familiar landscapes, slates, faces, tables and houses, archetypes recurrent in works by the philosopher-mathematician-visual poet from Piacenza devoted to often monochrome pictorial-material expression, are enclosed in opaque black micro-architectures (made from panels by Saib). Massimo Ferrari, Claudia Tinazzi with Annalucia D’Erchia and Pedro Escoriza Torralbo devised the installation project as an itinerary built from introverted, independent boxes matching themes developed by the artist on a narrative and temporal level to accompany visitors…

Stack arose from the encounter between the Friulian company Midj and two young emerging designers Enrico Martini and Dimitri Dall’Agnol. The chair is the perfect interpretation of the company motto “Design is a wonderful life”, which guides the research and development of new products in the R&D department of the Officina delle Idee. The chair’s onomatopoeic name is inspired by the noise produced by the simple system for assembling and dismantling the base with the seat, the fulcrum of the project, which makes it easy to ship and assemble. The two elements that compose the chair are joined without using screws, simply with a patented interlocking system. The base consists of a crosspiece with splayed legs that slots into two sockets set beneath the shell of the seat. The legs…

The occasion was the award ceremony of the Compasso d’Oro ADI 2011 in Rome. “We met Patrick Jouin for the first time at the design world’s most important event. In that prestigious setting, in which both of us received accolades, the foundations of our collaboration were laid,” says Monica Pedrali, CEO of the family business. “I immediately understood there would be an affinity and harmony between us,” adds the designer, following the thread of his memories. Two years later, Ester was created: “An upholstered, elegant and super comfortable seat for Alain Ducasse’s restaurant The Dorchester in London. First I designed the armchair, then the chair, the stool and then a pouf. In this way the whole collection is complete.” Ester can be considered Pedrali’s first ambassador to France. Its “synthesis…

PHILIPPE NIGRO “I FIND TWO DIFFERENT APPROACHES IN ITALIAN AND FRENCH DESIGN, DUE ON THE ONE HAND TO THE PROFOUND DIFFERENCE THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THE CRAFT AND INDUSTRIAL NETWORK IN THE TWO COUNTRIES, AND ON THE OTHER TO A DIFFERENCE IN THE THEORETICAL APPROACH TO DESIGN. IN FRANCE THE SPIRIT IS MORE RATIONAL AND ‘STUDIOUS’; IN ITALY MORE EXPERIMENTAL AND ‘SPONTANEOUS’. ITALY POSSESSES EXTRAORDINARY KNOW-HOW, THE TRANSMISSION OF WHICH FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE NEXT HANGS ONLY BY A THREAD. BEYOND THE VERY HIGH SKILL LEVEL, THERE IS CURIOSITY, COURAGE, A DESIRE TO BELIEVE IN DESIGN AND EXPERIMENT, WHICH I SEE AS THE REAL TREASURE THAT CONTRIBUTES TO THE GROWTH OF DESIGN IN ITALY AND THE WORLD. ONE OF MY LATEST PROJECTS THAT BEST EXPRESSES MY VISION OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN…

Ferréol Babin works alone, in his studio. He is completely happy with what he does and pleasure is a theme that often recurs in accounts of his design practice. The pleasure of choosing how and with whom to work, the pleasure of the relationship with the material, with his hands. The pleasure of having complete control over the final result: wooden objects that defy custom, make you wonder how to use them and, above all, invite you to engage in a sensuous relationship with the material. “We need to consume new products that define us as human beings,” he says. A path that Babin follows with a clear practice, fully entrusted to manual research, closer to sculpture than industrial design. “I learned to draw at the same time in my…

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There is an almost ascetic rigor in the work of Ronan Bouroullec. We have discovered the serial progress of his artistic practice in recent years, since publications and exhibitions have made his everyday exercise public, using multiple techniques aimed at the definition of a language he identifies with the concept of assembly itself. The works range from the terracotta bas reliefs, shown for the first time at the Galerie kreo in London in 2021, to the sculptures presented in Toulon in 2023; from the photographs on view at Licht in Tokyo in the fall of 2023, to the lithographic engravings and pen and brush drawings. Without overlooking the triptych on view for the centenary of Villa Noailles at Hyéres, and the monograph of “Day after Day,” a visual and methodological…

Housed in an iconic Manhattan store and with a breathtaking view of the Big Apple, Residenza Cappellini is one of the possible interpretations of a home capable of distilling the style and feel of the eponymous company. We talked about this and much else with the most suitable person to provide us with insights into the subject: Giulio Cappellini. Will Residenza Cappellini be in addition to your Madison Avenue space or will it take its place? Cappellini is present in New York in three locations. We have moved from SoHo to Madison Avenue: here a pre-opening is planned at the beginning of January, while the store’s official inauguration will be held in May and it will be a showroom for the public. Then we have another space with Haworth in…

PROJECTS The project Réenchanter la Villa Médicis is an extraordinary example of how the value of the historical heritage can be enhanced by contemporary arts and design, in a celebration of beauty and artistic crafts. In keeping with a program begun in 2021 under the guidance of Sam Stourdzé, director of the French Academy, located in Villa Medici, Rome, the refurbishment of twenty-one salons and guest rooms in the building is now underway. In 2022, six reception rooms were completed under the curatorship of Silvia Venturini Fendi and Kim Jones, artistic directors of Fendi, who involved designers such as Chiara Andreatti, Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and Toan Nguyen in the creation of the furnishings. In April 2023, six rooms were inaugurated to redesigns by India Mahdavi, including the…

The distance between Amsterdam and Paris is not great. On the other hand, fashion and science are far apart, but perhaps not so far as one might think. This is revealed by the exhibition “Iris van Herpen. Sculpting the Senses”, mounted at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris and devoted to the work of one of the most original and influential fashion designers worldwide. Since 2007, the year she founded her studio, Iris van Herpen has chosen to live and work in the Netherlands, an ideal place to play with technologies and solutions distant from traditional fashion. In 2010 she presented her first 3D printed dress at Amsterdam Fashion Week, gaining a global resonance. In 2011 she joined the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture and showed at Paris…

A truly outstanding year for the Maison founded by Sotirio Bulgari in 1884. In 2023, Bulgari Hotels Rome and Tokyo, designed by ACPV Architects Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel, were officially opened. 2023 also marked the 75th anniversary of the Bulgari Serpenti collection, which marked a turning point in the world of high-end jewelry. Fashioned with the most exquisite craftsmanship and goldsmith’s technique, thanks to the motif of the reptile interpreted and reproduced in the flexible and sinuous Tubogas spirals, the gold links are joined without soldering and embellished with splendid precious stones. Time has done the rest: the snake sheds its skin and in three quarters of a century its magnetic scales, shaped one by one, have created a landscape of objects of desire, immediately becoming a cult among collectors…

Our first double issue of the year is about Paris and France, and as usual it is published in English, ready for the upcoming international events on design. The reason for this specific focus lies in the fact that the Ville Lumière and its vicinity, from architecture to design, center to outskirts, countryside to city, are producing some strikingly fresh thinking and very stimulating projects. In architecture, the latest works by protagonists like Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Rudy Ricciotti help us to discover non-linear narratives in a humanistic spirit, adding spectacular presences to the urban fabric. Likewise, in the Cité internationale de la langue française, created inside the Renaissance heritage of Château de Villers-Cotterêts, the interventions of Atelier Projectiles invite visitors to play an active role in the various activities of…

THE CHAPEL OF SAINT-MICHEL DE BRASPARTS HAS BEEN COMPLETELY RESTORED FOLLOWING THE FIRES OF SUMMER 2022 THAT STRUCK THE NORTHWESTERN COAST OF FRANCE, AROUND THE MONTS D’ARRÉE IN BRITTANY. DATING BACK TO THE 17TH CENTURY, THIS IS A BUILDING WITH A RECTANGULAR PLAN, WHERE THE SLATE ROOF RESTS ON A STRUCTURE IN OAK. FOR RONAN BOUROULLEC, ENTRUSTED WITH THE DESIGN OF THE FURNISHINGS, THE CHAPEL HAS A PARTICULAR PLACE IN HIS MEMORIES: IT WAS A LANDMARK ALONG THE ROUTE LEADING FROM HIS HOME IN THE SOUTH TO THAT OF HIS GRANDPARENTS IN THE NORTH. THE PROJECT IS BASED ON THE SEARCH FOR BALANCE IN THE PROPORTIONS BETWEEN SURFACES AND LIGHT, BULK AND LIGHTNESS, APPLYING A LEXICON OF MATERIALS REDUCED TO THE ESSENTIAL IN RELATION TO THE SURROUNDING NATURE: THE GRANITE,…

Project by OTTO STUDIO PAOLA NAVONE Como Orchard is a complex machine, precisely like the island of Singapore. Connections and mixtures, elegance and excess join forces to create a recognizable, inimitable style. The functions of the building never simply follow the ground floor scheme – retail, living-hospitality from the second floor to the rooftop, while the latter hosts the bar-restaurant-pool. Parts of the building on Orchard Road can also contain shopping facilities, in the proximity of a restaurant. Long, orderly queues of customers gather at all hours of the day to enjoy a croissant by Cédric Grolet, the pastry chef based in Paris known for his reinterpretation of traditional French sweets; a smaller, more exclusive throng drops by to visit Club21, the multi-brand store organized on the ground and first…

A family story, as in the finest tradition of Italian design. A path that intertwines skilled craftsmanship and a vision of the future. It was in 1954 that Sergio Valentini, at Campodarsego in the Veneto, during the industrial boom, created a company that would soon become a leader on the international furniture scene. Since then countless sofas, armchairs and beds for houses all over the world have been produced in the plant in the province of Padua, following a particular thread that moves from the choice of the best materials, to enter homes for which the furnishings have been conceived and fabricated through a combination of research, comfort and elegance. This particular formula has now reached its 70th year: “An important milestone and the moment for a new beginning at…

PROJECT Pioneer, enfant prodige and master of international design, creator of a characteristic language and an interdisciplinary, inclusive vision of optimistic commitment. Philippe Starck has nurtured many designers in his studio, starting in the 1980s. Generations that have come to grips with the urges and spirit of the time, and have incorporated aspects of that experience in their own design attitudes. What remains of the Starck legacy in their work? We asked the master himself: “I don’t know, and I am not convinced that I should know and that I can know. Every generation, fortunately, changes in very important ways. And, in our case, faster and deeper. I have noticed that the new generation of designers is rediscovering ethical values, a humanist and social vision, and communist values.” When asked…

A story that has continued for 26 years. This is how Antonio Citterio describes his relationship with Maxalto: a long, fluid narrative on the theme of the middle-class home and the people who inhabit it, with projects that construct a timeless setting for everyday living. “Browsing through the pages of the book we have created to reconstruct the history of Maxalto, the objects form a path without any apparent chronological order. Every piece could have been designed today, or 20 years ago,” Citterio comments. It is the force of an ongoing effort, in which the designer is able to generate a measured, pragmatic and functional idea of luxury, a temporal flow inside concretely intelligent and well-balanced spaces. A story that visually unfolds in a Parisian apartment on Rue Montaigne, always…

INtopics EDITORIAL P1. È dedicato a Parigi e alla Francia il primo numero doppio dell’anno, per consuetudine in inglese e come sempre pensato per raggiungere gli appuntamenti internazionali del design. La ragione di un focus così mirato è che la Ville Lumière e i suoi dintorni, dall’architettura al design, dal centro alla periferia, dalla campagna alla città, stanno rivelando una freschezza di pensiero e di progetto molto stimolante. In architettura, le opere recenti di protagonisti quali Jean-Michel Wilmotte e Rudy Ricciotti ci invitano alla scoperta di racconti non lineari di matrice umanista e forte spettacolarità nel tessuto urbano. Altrettanto, la Cité internationale de la langue française, di casa nel rinascimentale Château de Villers-Cotterêts, dove gli interventi di Atelier Projectiles invitano i visitatori a partecipare in modo attivo alle varie attività…

In Budapest there is much more than just the enduring charm of its historic baths or the new hospitality of the various hotels such as Verno House, Four Seasons, Dorothea (the latter, brand new, designed by Piero Lissoni’s Italian studio), with a tourism strategy supported by direct flights from Italy and the Orient. There are not only the colors and heritage of the neo-Renaissance Opera House, next to the contemporary metallic sounds of Sou Fujimoto’s House of Music nestling in the greenery of the park, all the way to the long boulevard showcasing the premises of the various global luxury and premium fashion brands. If you cross the Danube, which divides the city in two, you become enriched today by the great opportunity to discover new values and impulses of…

“PHOTOPASTEL” IS THE FIRST EDITION OF THE CULTURAL PROJECT OF MODULNOVA, MAP | MODULNOVA ART PROJECT, ORGANIZED TO CELEBRATE CREATIVITY AND BEAUTY. IN THIS HISTORICAL MOMENT THE CONTAMINATIONS BETWEEN ART AND DESIGN ARE CONSTANTLY EVOLVING AND COMPANIES CAN BECOME THE NEW PATRONS OF THE ARTS. PATRIZIA MUSSA, A PHOTOGRAPHER AND ANTHROPOLOGIST BASED IN TURIN, CREATES A SERIES OF SHOTS OF IMPORTANT ITALIAN BUILDINGS, FROM THEATERS TO BAROQUE CHURCHES, WHOSE ARCHITECTURE – REVISED IN THE INTERVENTION OF COLORING BY HAND – IS TRANSFORMED TO PRODUCE IMAGINARY PLACES SUSPENDED IN TIME. CLAUDIO COMPOSTI, CURATOR IN COLLABORATION WITH PAOLA SOSIO CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, EXPLAINS: “‘PHOTOPASTEL’ LIBERATES ITSELF FROM THE SIMPLE NATURE OF THE INITIAL PHOTOGRAPH THANKS TO THE HANDMADE PAINTED INTERVENTION, WITH WHICH PATRIZIA TRANSFORMS REALITY INTO AN AUTHENTIC MENTAL IMAGE. HERE PLACES…

Project by ESTÚDIO CAMPANA We met with Humberto Campana in the new studio in São Paulo, which was selected together with Fernando eight months after the latter’s premature death in November 2022, at the age of 61. A very delicate passage: Humberto is still coping with the loss of “a partner, a friend, a brother.” We have always interpreted the works of Fernando, the more artistic and extroverted side of the duo, and Humberto, the more introverted of the two, with a law degree, as coming from a single entity, since the Brazilian studio that has blazed new trails in international design was opened in 1984. Their projects for Edra (iconic) and Paola Lenti, but also for Louis Vuitton, Baccarat, Alessi, Artemide, Nodus, and with the Parisian Café Campana created…

French, a lover (and connoisseur) of Italy, where she directed the Venice Art Biennale in 2017 (“Viva Arte Viva”), Christine Macel has had an intense career as an art curator and historian, which has led to her appointment as director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs of Paris in October 2022. In the past, she has been the general conservator of heritage and then director of the director of the section Création Contemporaine et Prospective of Centre Pompidou, where she has overseen important exhibitions, including “Les Promesses du passé” (a transnational and transgenerational exhibition on the countries of the former Soviet bloc) and “Elles font l’abstraction” (on women artists from the 19th century to 1990), in which she has put into practice a new concept of discontinuity, as opposed to…

Six studios run by women, with the sole exception of one man, Lucien Dumas, of the group Materra-Matang. They are Ophélie Dozat with Lou-Poko Savadogo, Elisa Uberti, Gala Espel, Julie Richoz, Chloe Bensahel and Sophie Dries, bearing witness to a gentle revolution that in recent years is reformulating creativity in the world of design. Young people in their thirties, liberated talents in their forties, graduates of the finest schools in their native lands, like the École Camondo of Paris and the School of Architecture of Versailles, or ENSA Paris-Malaquais, after which they finished their studies abroad, at Aalto University in Helsinki, Parsons in New York and ECAL in Lausanne. A collective survey of their work conveys a plural, contaminated landscape, in which the influences are both industrial – developed in…

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