Design Week 2023, Pandolfini exhibits iconic furniture and objects of Italian and international design
From April 20 to 23, in conjunction with Design Week 2023, Pandolfini presents Design Spotlight in Milan: a selection of furniture and objects by some of the names that have made history in Italian and international design.
By Redazione | 18/04/2023 12:25
In conjunction with Design Week 2023, the event that celebrates Milan as the capital of international design, Pandolfini is presenting Design Spotlight in Milan from April 20 to 23 at its headquarters in Via Manzoni 45: a selection of furniture and objects chosen from among great rarities and achievements of the highest quality by some of the names that have made the history of Italian and international design and those companies that have supported and promoted their creation.
In homage to Milan, we begin with Paolo Buffa, from the 1930s to the 1970s among the Milanese architects who made Italian style a timeless international cult. A work that throughout the 20th century kept up with the times without ever abandoning elegance, quality and rigor in execution. Examples of this are the furnishings of an entire room made by Mosè Turri in 1944: a storage cabinet, a table, six chairs and a six-drawer cabinet, with elegant, clean lines embellished with a geometric motif.
Iconic are a desk and its associated armchair made by Gio Ponti in the 1930s.
Also at Design Spotlight is Ettore Sottsass with one of the few Superboxes made: a set of eight model S12 chairs designed in 1956 for Poltronova, a never-before-seen Maragià sofa, and a Liana bookcase created in only ten pieces by Meccani. Architect, designer, painter, photographer, writer, but above all exponent of a cultural revolution in product creation. In his production one finds the object designed for realization on a very large scale and the unique piece, or almost unique, thought of as the materialization of a thought at the limit of functionality.
It continues with Alessandro Mendini and his Proust Armchair made by hand and signed by the same designer in 1998, an iconic piece that entered the collective imagination as an example of the encounter between art and industrial design, to arrive at the monumental armchairs designed by Gaetano Pesce and made by Meritalia, Senza Fine Unica, thrones made from a single ribbon of polychrome pvc wrapped around itself until it becomes structural.
An ideal thread that runs through the season of Italian and Milanese design in particular: it continues with other splendid creations, some exhibited during the days of the fuori salone, and all offered in the Florentine auction on May 9. These include a rare Iride lamp by Ico and Luisa Parisi and a rare one by Julio Le Parc, some furniture by Mario Ceroli, and then Scarpa, Venini, Seguso, Buffa, Borsani Mangiarotti, Gambone and Salvetti.
Image: Alessandro Mendini, Proust Armchair
