Rooms. Novel Living Concepts

The exhibition “Rooms. Novel Living Concepts”, part of XX1T, this year’s Milan Triennale aims at a reflection on the status of the art based on  the work done by many authors, some of them well known while others still young and emerging.

The interior architecture has this really special task: to think and define the spaces and environments, with the shapes, the colors, the details that will host, will welcome, will touch the bodies of those people, registering moods and passions. While the interior design continues to be an important engine that drives economies and professionalism, there are few critical occasions that put attention to these works.

After a brief historical introduction, which aims to introduce the topic and place it historically through the story of the works of the great masters of the past who have practiced the interior architecture as the first professional field (Gio Ponti, Franco Albini, Carlo Mollino, Carlo Scarpa, Carlo De Carli, Vittoriano Vigano, Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Leonardo Savioli, Toni Cordero, etc.), but also other great protagonists of the Italian culture of the twentieth century (BBPR, Angelo Mangiarotti, Vico Magistretti, Ignazio Gardella, Marco Zanuso, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Vittorio Gregotti, Gae Aulenti, Nanda Vigo, etc.), are works of authors who in recent years have shown their thoughts, their talent and their vision of the world through the architecture of the internal (such as, for example, Michele Bonino / Coex, Antonello Boschi, Calvi Merlini Moya, Guido Canali, Gabriella and Massimo Carmassi, Gianfranco Cavaglià, Carla Ceccariglia, Massimo Curzi, Cherubino Gambardella, Luciano Giorgi, Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, Johanna Grawunder, Decio Guardigli Guido Morpurgo and Annalisa De Curtis, Francesco Pasquali, Daniel Rossi, Italo Rota, Alessandro Scandurra, UdA, Stefano Testa / Cliostraat, Vaerini Bruno, Francesco Venezia, etc.).

Then the exhibition showcases a sequence of rooms, each designed by a different author: Andrea Anastasio, Manolo De Giorgi, Duilio Forte, Marta Laudani and Marco Romanelli, Lazzarini Pickering Architects, Francesco Librizzi, Alessandro Mendini, Fabio Novembre, Carlo Ratti Associati, Umberto Riva, Elisabetta Terragni who stage their own thoughts and their “living philosophy”.