Exhibitions, Italy, Firenze, 23 May 2010
The exhibition presents some of the 28 pieces designed in 1999 for the "Boscaro Project", to safeguard and relaunch the traditions of Italian artistic craftsmanship.
(The exhibition was presented for the first and only time in Parma in December 2000).
Ettore Sottsass is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious and famous designers in the world and his work has marked the history of global design in the twentieth century. Ettore has made 28 projects of tables, cupboards, drawers and boxes.Together with Andrea Fedeli, an excellent marquetry worker and restorer, these works have been translated into extraordinary art pieces through the ancient technique of fine wood inlay.
Sottsass and Fedeli are partners in creating these unique and very particular crafts and artistic objects.
The cultural and artistic significance of the collection lies in the concept of combining the creativity of great designers with the most valuable traditions of applied art surviving through industrialization and culture's globalization. The aim is to save these techniques from extinction and to pass them on to young people as a cultural and economic resource of inestimable value. To have them in full working practice in everyday life and not merely as relics in a museum.
Simultaneously, in the adjacent Compagnia, will be shown a selection of lamps by Duccio Trassinelli, including the BT2 and PRISMAR. These have recently joined the permanent collection in the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Also, in the exhibition space at La Macina will be shown the elegant glass sculptures by Daniela Forti.
( only by appointment: tel. 055 8544793 info@chianticom.com )
(The exhibition was presented for the first and only time in Parma in December 2000).
Ettore Sottsass is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious and famous designers in the world and his work has marked the history of global design in the twentieth century. Ettore has made 28 projects of tables, cupboards, drawers and boxes.Together with Andrea Fedeli, an excellent marquetry worker and restorer, these works have been translated into extraordinary art pieces through the ancient technique of fine wood inlay.
Sottsass and Fedeli are partners in creating these unique and very particular crafts and artistic objects.
The cultural and artistic significance of the collection lies in the concept of combining the creativity of great designers with the most valuable traditions of applied art surviving through industrialization and culture's globalization. The aim is to save these techniques from extinction and to pass them on to young people as a cultural and economic resource of inestimable value. To have them in full working practice in everyday life and not merely as relics in a museum.
Simultaneously, in the adjacent Compagnia, will be shown a selection of lamps by Duccio Trassinelli, including the BT2 and PRISMAR. These have recently joined the permanent collection in the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Also, in the exhibition space at La Macina will be shown the elegant glass sculptures by Daniela Forti.
( only by appointment: tel. 055 8544793 info@chianticom.com )
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