Five of the best exhibitions from Madrid Design Festival 2019
The second edition of the Madrid Design Festival saw designers create exhibitions across the Spanish capital. Our favourites include a showcase from mid-century furniture brand Darro and a series of sculptures inside a baroque mansion.
Madrid Design Festival 2019 took place from 1 to 28 February in various locations throughout the city, presenting both national and international projects, and offering visitors the opportunity to discuss and share ideas on the state of Spanish design.
Design reporter Gunseli Yalcinkaya reveals five of the best exhibitions on show:
Guillermo Santomà at Cerralbo Museum
Barcelona-based designer Guillermo Santomà installed a series of sculptural structures in the lavish baroque-style interior of the Cerralbo Museum, a 19th-century mansion and former home of the 17th Marquis of Cerralbo. Each site-specific spatial intervention was made to correspond with a particular area in the mansion. These included a cluster of geometric lighting within a scaffold-like framework in the ballroom to a couch covered in thick purple resin in the Chamfered Corner Room ? an area originally intended for sitting and lounging.
Craftsmanship at Centro Cultural Fernán Gómez de la Villa
This exhibition showcasing Spanish craftsmen from a host of disciplines aimed to demonstrate how craft objects can be integrated into our everyday lives, describing them as an "extremely important cultural manifestation".
Each object in the show was based on six c...
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Villa M by Pierattelli Architetture Modernizes 1950s Florence Estate
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