Design Duo Double Feature
FENIX
Milano Design Week 2024
On the occasion of MDW 2024, FENIX® presents the “Design Duo Double Feature” project, curated by Federica Sala, which explores the potential of surfaces through creations by six pairs of designers. The exhibition combines FENIX® materials with other surfaces from the group.
The project is based on the concept of duality, with objects taking on new functions and meanings through the combination of materials. The designer pairs, selected by Federica Sala, include CARA \ DAVIDE, DWA Design Studio, Martinelli Venezia, Næssi Studio, mist-o, and Zanellato/Bortotto. Each duo created furniture with a dual purpose, showcased in a setup curated by Studioboom, which connects indoors and outdoors with a three-dimensional geometry.
The white installation enhances the color and tactile contrasts of the materials. The projects range from mist-o’s “1-2 many,” which explores transformability, to CARA \ DAVIDE’s “Ambo” seating, representing the duality between solitude and unity. Zanellato/Bortotto’s “Duo” examines the balance between two people, while Næssi Studio’s “Inbetween” serves as a threshold between public and private. Martinelli Venezia’s “Match” blends table and ping-pong, and DWA Design Studio’s “Theia” merges light and container.
Archive
- Exhibition
- Editorial
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Buccellati makes its debut at MDW 22 with an exhibition that reinterprets the Galateo in a contemporary context. The installation project by Stefano Boeri Interiors invites Dimorestudio, Ashley Hicks, Chahan Minassian, and Patricia Urquiola to interpret four historical tableware collections along with the new porcelain developed in collaboration with Ginori 1735.
The exhibition format dedicated to the relationship between architecture, art, and design, returns for its sixth edition. The event invites creators Zilla Leutenegger, Studio Ossidiana, Cino Zucchi, and Chiara Zucchi to share the space at Assab One, engaging with each other and the audience through three large participatory installations.
2022
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2021
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2021
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2021
An unprecedented collection of candelabras, conceived ad hoc by a series of national and international designers, is displayed in a cognitive exhibition and auctioned by Christie’s. The proceeds are entirely donated to the Mario Negri Institute, implementing scientific research against cancer.
2021
The exhibition at Ordet presents for the first time the deep sense of Marcin Rusak’s ongoing research and development phases that characterize the designer’s collections and tests. In his work, elements such as flowers, leaves and plants are observed, analysed, reconstructed and transformed into raw material to be subsequently re-designed.
2021
The fifth edition of the format conceived by Elena Quarestani, continues under the banner of dialogue between three authors: architecten jan de vylder inge vinck/inge vinck jan de vylder architecten, Claudia Losi and Caretto/Spagna. Three interventions speak of care and attention and another, non-invasive way of inhabiting the world.
2021
On the occasion of the opening of the ADI Design Museum, the association is dedicating, on the centenary of its birth, a tribute exhibition to entrepreneur Giulio Castelli, among the founding fathers of the association itself and its first president. The exhibition, located in the area dedicated to the Compassi d’Oro alla Carriera, traces the salient stages of his entrepreneurial life.
2021
An artistic research project exploring the traditional craft of glassblowing and translating implicit, bodily knowledge into digital data, experiences, and objects. The first results of the research are displayed in an exhibition in feldfünf with artists Verena Bachl, Elaine Bonavia, Babe and Wiezorek, Philipp Weber & WINT Design Lab.
2021
Conceived as a widespread exhibition in the heart of Milan, the cultural revival and recovery project conceived by entrepreneur Lorenzo Lombardi and photographer Valentina Angeloni presents a four-way conversation between Nathalie Du Pasquier, Gianluca Malgeri with Arina Endo, Lorenzo Vitturi, and Regine Schumann.
2020
No longer three monographic exhibitions in parallel, but a single exhibition in which Loris Cecchini, Michele De Lucchi with AMDL Circle and Pentagram, in the further expanded version of Pentagram & Friends, present their own work in relation to that of others, under the banner of interaction and above all collaboration.
2020
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2018, 2019
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2018
To mark the centenary of his birth, the Milan Triennale dedicates a major monographic exhibition, curated by Patricia Urquiola in collaboration with Federica Sala, to Achille Castiglioni (1918-2002), one of the most important masters of Italian design.
2018, 2019, 2020
Over three editions, the last of which is in a digital format, Life in Vogue presents a dialogue between design and fashion by having a selection of designers, with unmistakable style, to interpret the spaces of the historic editorial office of Vogue Italia.
2017, 2018, 2019
Airbnb launches the new “Casa d’artista” (“Artist’s House”) project to revalue Italian villages through site-specific interventions by artists such as Francesco Simeti, Edoardo Piermattei, Olimpia Zagnoli and Lorenzo Vitturi.
2016, 2017
For two consecutive editions, the exhibition Ladies & Gentlemen, curated by PS and gallery Secondome, reopens a historic Milanese house in downtown (14 Via Cesare Correnti) for an unexpected dialogue between old rooms and new Italian craftsmanship.
2015, 2016, 2017
Curating the annual exhibition of the newly formed 5VIE district to tell the state of the art of contemporary design: Max Lamb and Raw Edges at Garage Sanremo and Sabine Marcelis, Philipp Weber, Sigve Knutson, Matteo Cibic at Foyer Gorani.
2013, 2014, 2015
The newly established Object section of the fair, initiated by Vincenzo De Bellis, includes a selection of galleries active in promoting modern and contemporary design objects conceived in limited editions and enjoyed as works of art.
2011
Curated by Federica Sala and Michela Pelizzari (PS), Instant Design is divided into two different chapters, Edible Thoughts and Fruible Acts. Two different exhibitions, each aimed at investigating the ephemeral aspect and the very act of fruition of design.
2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
Under the artistic direction of Francesco Bonami, Enel Contemporanea marks Enel’s entry into the world of contemporary art with a series of works created by artists such as: Bik van der Pol, Carsten Holler, Mike and Doug Starn, Toshiko Horiuchi.
2006
The Parisian institution Centre Pompidou is dedicating an exhibition to Benetton’s creativity research center. The exhibition, curated by Marie-Laure Jousset with Federica Sala as her assistant,, will next be taken on tour to the Shanghai Art Museum, the Milan Triennale and Shiodome Italia in Tokyo.
2006
A group show, curated by Federica Sala, about experimentation in design: vinyl by François Azambourg for Domestic, Arik Levy, Electronic Shadow, Olivier Peyricot, and ENSCI Les Ateliers students.
2005
Monographic exhibition dedicated to the futuristic talent and communication skills of Ora Ito, often referred to as the enfant terrible of French design for his ability to make fun of the system while being within it.
2004
The French cultural outpost in Milan entrusts Federica Sala with the curatorship of a group exhibition, among designers and manufacturers, on the theme of light in French design on the occasion of the Salone del Mobile.
2003
The Paris institution dedicates an exhibition to the designer’s 20 years of work for Olivetti on the occasion of the donation made by Ettore Sottsass Jr. to the museum’s collection. Curated by Marie-Laure Jousset with Ivan Mietton and Federica Sala.
2002
Curated by Marie-Laure Jousset and staged at Galerie Sud, the monographic exhibition on French designer Philippe Starck presents a dematerialized account of objects through the use of the latest video and morphing technologies.
2022 - ongoing
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2022
Curatorial text for the catalog of the exhibition at the ADI Design Museum.
2022
Curatorial text on the occasion of the monographic exhibition of artist Flaminia Veronesi.
2022
Curatorial text for the Alta Tension (High Voltage) catalog edited by DDW for the exhibition of the same name at the ADI Design Museum.
2022
Curatorial text for the designer’s exhibition at MDW.
2022
Curatorial text for the designer’s exhibition at MDW.
2022
Curatorial text “The exhibition does not exist” published in Le Dictateur No. 6, Le Dictateur editions.
2021
Curatorial text for the preface of the book “Senso Espresso” published for Cimbali.
2021
Curatorial text for the exhibition catalog “Tunnel 29,” published by Mao Museum Slovenia.
2021
The book, published by Rizzoli International, is an intimate journey into the creative universe of the sculptor and art designer Gianluca Pacchioni. The result of a ten-year collaboration with the photographer Lorenzo Pennati, it recounts the journey of his art through precious interior objects, works of art and site-specific installations.
2021
Curatorial text for the book “Handmade” by Bitossi published by Bitossi on the occasion of the museum’s opening in Montelupo Fiorentino.
2021
Curatorial text for the book “Fine Zine” published by Camp Design Gallery.
A tribute to the entrepreneur who helped found the Italian design system and give recognition to the design profession. The exhibition and the catalog summarize his entrepreneurial vision.
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2021
Curatorial text for the book “Homework” published by photographer Claudia Zalla.