In this first room, a historical introduction is presented with fifty examples of interior design projects from the 1920s to the present day, selected from those imagined by the great masters of modern architecture: Gio Ponti, Franco Albini, Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, Piero Portaluppi, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Ignazio Gardella, and BBPR.
Some authors work across multiple disciplines: Ivo Pannaggi, Getulio Alviani, Corrado Levi.
Next are exhibited the works of great designers from the 1960s and 1970s to the present day: Carlo De Carli, Leonardo Savioli, Gae Aulenti, Umberto Riva, Salvati e Tresoldi, Francesco Venezia, Calvi Merlini Moya, Paolo Deganello, Massimo Murzi, up to Coex, Antonello Boschi, Studio 8&A, Attilio Stocchi, Cherubino Gambardella, Antonino Cardillo, Lopes Brenna and the studios FuGA, UdA and Wok.
Extremely talented, though less celebrated, authors: Melchiorre Bega, Lugiano Baldessari, Giulio Minoletti, Cini Boeri, Piero Sartogo, Carla Venosta.
Extraordinary figures: Vittoriano Viganò, Ettore Sottsass, Angelo Mangiarotti, Joe Colombo, Italo Lupi.
And today’s masters: Alessandro Mendini, Nanda Vigo, Guido Canali, Gaetano Pesce, Massimo Carmassi and Gabriella Ioli, Gianni Pettena, Italo Rota with Gianfranco Cavaglià, Bruno Vaerini and Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo.