FAI: two new house-museums in Milan
FAI, Fondo per l’Ambiente Italiano ETS, has received the donation of two new properties rich in history, which together with Villa Necchi become parts of the house-museum circuit of Milan: Casa Crespi, with the...
Genius in matter
In the center, the Parigi armchair, a 1989 masterpiece designed for UniFor, and the Piroscafo sideboard, dated 1992, two icons of the collaboration between Aldo Rossi and the Molteni Group. All around are the...
Noor Riyadh: where art meets light
Once again this year, Noor Riyadh returns to light up the Saudi capital. The country’s most important festival of lights began last week and continues until 16 December. For three years now, it has...
Possessed vases
In the beating heart of Milan's contemporary art scene, Galleria Luisa Delle Piane is a beacon of innovation and audacity. Its latest exhibition, ‘Invasati’, is a hymn to creativity expressed through extraordinary works by...
Across time and space
Across exhibitions as in a museum, a gallery where different arts – design and photography – coexist side by side. Amidst elegant sofas and signature shots, narrating the evolution through the decades. The flagship...
Design Made in Puglia, showing in New York
A satellite exhibition of the BDNY fair in Manhattan, the lively and surprising show Autentico. Design made in Puglia - staged at the Meatpacking District - celebrated the creative force of this land and...
Dialogue in three voices
The exhibition Balla ’12 Dorazio ’60. Dove la luce (Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano – until 14 January 2023, curated by Gabriella Belli) brings together a brilliant curatorial intuition, works of high historical...
Harlequin and Fornasetti: a place, an idea, an exhibition
Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988), Milanese painter, sculptor, interior designer, art book printer and creator of more than thirteen thousand objects, was commissioned at the end of the 1940s to decorate the Arlecchino (Harlequin) movie theater,...
Maria Walter Nielsen: PLURI
It pops under your fingers, producing a subtle sensation of satisfaction. As it pops it emits strange sounds. Its cells are transparent and filled with air. Bubblewrap is a simple material, generally utilized to...
The design subversive
On 7 November, Italian auction house Cambi Casa d’Aste is holding a sale dedicated to Dino Gavina (1922-2007), a central figure in the history of post-war design, a courageous, visionary and enlightened entrepreneur.
Gavina was...
