Exhibition
Beppe Finessi
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.
House of Dust
Beppe Finessi
Extremely beautiful metaphysical spaces, rooms that seem to speak of layer upon layer of memories, colour palettes never before seen in interior architecture: a new author who has carved out a place entirely his own in the history of this discipline within just a few years. [exhibition text]
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. [catalogue text]
