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date and location: from March 8, ADI Design Museum, Milan
installation picture ©Martina Bonetti
An unprecedented dialogue between concreteness and abstraction, modern and postmodern, design and architecture: opening on March 8 at ADI in Milan, the exhibition "Marco Zanuso and Alessandro Mendini. Design and Architecture" places the two masters facing each other as never before, in a game of references and reflections on the different approaches to design of the two masters, united by having been great innovators of the domestic panorama of their time.
Curated by Pierluigi Nicolin, Nina Bassoli and Gaia Piccarolo, the exhibition itinerary is divided into twelve chapters: Comfort, New Aesthetics, Grand Staircase, Modular Construction, Innovation and Stone Walls are the sections dedicated to Marco Zanuso; Alchemies, Global Toys, Decorations, Museums, Homes, Text and images are those dedicated to Alessandro Mendini.
The bright spaces of the former 1930s tram depot in Piazza Compasso d'Oro, which since 2020 has been transformed into the new ADI Design Museum, periodically host in-depth exhibitions on design and kids workshops, which flank the precious historical collection of the Compasso d'Oro award — made up of selected objects from 1954 to today.
