Stories of other rooms

Rooms. Novel Living Concepts

Marsilio

A century of the history of Italian interiors, seen through the work of its central figures, from Gio Ponti to Franco Albini, from Carlo Mollino to Luigi Caccia Dominioni, from Umberto Riva to our own day. A compelling story, accompanied by a visual atlas of 250 projects, illustrated with more than 1,000 archival images and explained by critical and theoretical essays that address the theme of the exhibition held at the XXI Triennale di Milano, Rooms. Other Philosophies of Living: eleven unique interpretations of that which only seems to be everyday and familiar.

Stories of other rooms

Beppe Finessi

Two hundred and fifty interior design projects from the 1920s to today, a century of rooms to be lived in, chosen from among those imagined by the grand masters of modern Italian architecture […]

There are interior designers who magically sweep away all established practice and make a name for themselves with a project destined to become a landmark. We have seen this recently with Antonino Cardillo, whose House of Dust (Rome, 2013) proposes metaphysical settings of great beauty, where the interiors speak of memories deposited in layers of colour that have never been seen before. […]