Rooms ? Novel Living Concepts show in Milan presents interior architecture by Italian designers
Milan 2016: a hollow head-shaped chamber by Fabio Novembre and a geometrically decorated "prison" by Alessandro Mendini are presented as conceptual interior spaces at the Rooms ? Novel Living Concepts show (+ slideshow).
The exhibition is part of the XXI Triennale di Milano ? a citywide series of art, design, architecture, fashion, film, communication and society events.
Working on the premise that people spend most of their lives inside houses, and therefore exist in designed spaces, curator Beppe Finessi set out to reassess the importance of interior architecture in the midst of the "digital revolution".
The Rooms ? Novel living concepts show opened with an introductory space, offering context to the issues explored in the exhibition Eleven Italy-based designers and studios were invited to create an interior living space "for today and tomorrow" in response.
Each of the 11 rooms relates to an influential book ? or several books ? written in the last 30 years by critics, while 11 essays by philosopher Francesco M Cataluccio also accompany the show to "enable the architects involved to dialogue with the great thinkers of our time".
The show opens with an introductory space, offering historical context to the issues and themes explored in the exhibition. Fifty architectural designs for Italian interiors are presented, ranging from the 1920s to the present day.
Beyond, the 11 installations by "established masters and young desi...
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