n.42 - February 2012
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Focus onThe furniture & the city
From 14 to 19 April Fiera Milano sees the return of the Furniture Show
'I Saloni'
, or rather, "Shows" (the international furniture show, Eurocucina, the international bathroom show, the international furnishing accessory show and satellite show) - an international-calibre showcase. With numerous fringe events all over Milan, starting in March.
These four exhibitions on the themes of furnishing and design, will be housed in eight important institutions in the Lombardy capital city: Villa Reale, Brera Art Gallery, Poldi Pezzoli and Bagatti Valsecchi house museums, the Planetarium, Boschi Di Stefano House, Villa Necchi Campiglio and the Triennale Bovisa. “Ospiti inaspettati. Case di ieri, Design di oggi - Unexpected guests. Homes of Yesteryear, Design of Today" (11 March – 2 May) Curated by Beppe Finessi with images by Italo Lupi, this exhibition organised by The Milan Historic House Museums Network and Cosmit aims to make innovation and contemporary design interact with excellences from yesteryear: dialogue between top-level craftsmanship from bygone days and new production techniques. The four "House Museums” (Poldi Pezzoli, Bagatti Valsecchi, Boschi Di Stefano and Villa Necchi Campiglio), with their interiors steeped in flavour, atmosphere and history, will house over two hundred projects, from small articles to furniture, which together represent a meaningful corpus of design in the new millennium: the “unexpected guests”.
“Tutti a tavola - Everyone to the table!” (14 April – 9 May)
Curated by Franco Laera, this is a journey into the most significant expressions of dining as an act of beauty and creativity, exploring its private and public, showy aspects in the rooms of the wonderful 18th-century Villa Belgiojoso Bonaparte.
"Un bagno di stelle - A Celestial bathroom” (14-19 April)
Curated by Francesca Molteni, this is a video-installation celebrating the world of the bathroom, seen through the grace and beauty of the female form and the celestial vault. In the amazing setting of Milan’s Planetarium, an invitation to rediscover the bathroom as a place for wellbeing and harmony thanks to images from the cinema and art, graphics and advertising, quotations by great poets and writers. The voice of famous Italian cinema actress, Margherita Buy lends even more pathos to this multimedia showing.
"La mano del designer - The hand of the designer" (10 April – 9 May)
Fiera Milano news n.24 - April 2010
This initiative is dedicated to the autograph drawings and sketches donated to the FAI (the Italian National Trust) by designers from all over the world. A wide range of different kinds of documents will be on show: quick sketches or scribbles made up of lines and impulsive doodles, but also collages and paper bas-reliefs, right through to simple outlines that illustrate an idea. A selection of drawings on show at the Triennale Bovisa will form the basis for an auction by Sotheby’s on Thursday 13 May in Villa Necchi Campiglio. All proceeds will be donated to restoration and maintenance of Villa Necchi and to the launch of the Olivetti shop in Venice, designed by Carlo Scarpa in 1957/8.   NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE   
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