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exploring taste – Spring/Summer 2016 places – The rooms of Milan

as always attracting tourists from every corner of the world. In the context ‘Man’s first room’ represents the threshold separating nature and the home:
of the XXI International exhibition, the very same prestigious Milanese in- once crossed, space ceases to be wild and becomes domestic. It hinges on the
terior design fair presents ‘Stanze. Altre filosofie dell’abitare’ (‘Rooms. Other mythical fantasy of an ‘original moment’: when man stopped, struck by the
philosophies around living’), curated by Beppe Finessi. The exhibition looks beauty of a specific place, and chose to remain there, to make it his home.
at interior design through the eyes of 11 great practitioners, reckoning with Le mie prigioni (My prisons) by Alessandro Mendini encapsulates the feel-
the most meaningful and crucial aspects of contemporary society. Salone del ings experienced by someone living in captivity. It is an introverted room, a
Mobile wishes to offer a platform for experimentation, business, innovation locked perimeter, a mental space that’s impossible to access – small, though
and culture. That’s why it accepted the challenge issued by the Triennale In- enormous – in any case self-contained.
ternational Exhibition: putting together an event that highlights the special INTRO by Fabio Novembre is a room to dream in: built in leather, with in-
task of interior design, and proposes new avenues for the future of home liv- credible skill, and fully contained within a perfectly spherical pod, covered
ing. Nowadays, most of our lives take place indoors, which is why we trust in- with mirrors on the outside. Sleep is the space-time threshold that every night
terior designers to come up with colors and shapes to articulate and redefine brings us back to our original amniotic state, and in the morning forces us to
those spaces and environments in which our day-to-day unfolds. be reborn, fully conscious, fully human. Ca’ del Bosco, Erbusco (BS), with Polish sculptor Igor Mitoraj’s iconic Eroe di Luce, on the foreground. Photography by courtesy of Ca’ del Bosco
The 11 rooms bear different themes and feelings. Each of them experiments Carlo Ratti Associati’s studio presents Lift-Bit: the first interior design system
and adds new value to the notion of design, by encouraging us to reflect upon that’s connected to the net. The project consists of a comfortable, modular CA’ DEL BOSCO:
the different ways of living that are available to each of us. and adaptable chair, employing the technologies of the 'Internet of Things'
Risonanze, (Resonances) by Andrea Anastasio, aims to offer a new shape to introduce a new living experience. The Lift-Bit prototype started from a THE ARTS’ ESTATE
to the group of polarizations that mark our domestic space: inside-outside; combination of individual hexagonal stools. It is controlled remotely via an
microcosm-macrocosm; isolation-relation; closed-open; dialogue-indiffer- app, through which each stool can double or halve its height, reconfiguring
ence; sanity-illness. space in potentially endless combinations.
Circolare, circolare (Circulation) by Manolo De Giorgi looks at home living as a La petite chambre by Umberto Riva reinvents Cabanon, a refuge built by As an official partner of Milan’s annual design expo, the Salone del Mobile, Ca’ del Bosco is delighted to bring its wine making
space of constant flux; stripes are juxtaposed to generate an environment that LeCorbusier on the French Riviera in 1952, putting forth a discussion about excellence to an event that shares the company’s passion for style, innovation, artisanship and tradition. And most of all, a deep love
feels like a ‘work in progress’. the spaces that are essential to human living. of art. Ca’ del Bosco’s is a place where art and wine combine perfectly into an organic whole. Sculpture, in particular, is an art form
Ursus by Duilio Forte offers punters the possibility to experience a brief liv- In prospettiva (in perspective) by Elisabetta Terragni, portrays a room as a that the company has championed and honored for many years by transforming the grounds of its estate into an exhibition space
ing experience inside a zoomorphic shape. Inside, the space is inhabited by microcosm of living and thinking, in which everything is slowly filtered for the work of many world famous artists. The stunning countryside landscape is the perfect location to exhibit sculptural work
many objects, sculptures, books and images from the Scandinavian world, and distilled. This room will never be inhabited, but bares its intimacy which, it is Ca’ del Bosco’s belief, has so much in common with wine. Both are multi-dimensional artifacts that must be experienced
mythology and travel. through absence and void. through the simultaneous engagement of multiple senses. This is how in recent years Ca’ del Bosco has come to devote much attention
L’assenza nella presenza (Absence in presence) by Marta Laudani and Mar- The exhibition will close in September 2016, renewing the historical bond to sculptors and their work, opening its home to everyone who shares a passion for both wine and art.
co Romanelli analyses the value of ‘absence’ in the ‘new living model’. In its between Milan and innovation, as the capacity to inject the contemporary From Arnaldo Pomodoro and his Inno al sole which welcomes you to the estate, to artists such as Rabarama, Stefano Bombardieri
inner spaces, time struggles caught in the dichotomy between showing and into art, through the constant cross-contamination of international inputs and Rado Kirov, many are the names whose creations are collected here at Ca’ del Bosco. A special mention must be made of Eroe di
hiding, presence and absence, ‘gym’ and ‘stage’. and inspirations. Luce, a 1991 white Carrara marble sculpture created by Polish artist Igor Mitoraj, a dreamy and imposing vision of a human head
La vie en rose by Claudio Lazzarini and Carl Pickering uses tinted glass panes fragment, the eyes and upper portion sliced away, enclosing another, smaller, shrouded head. It is a perfect example of Mitoraj’s
ranging from pink to burgundy red to outline the perimeter of a minimal sincere and almost cruel imagery: “I don’t stop to consider the viewers’ reception of the work” the artist declared. “I express myself
living cell, investigating the technical, aesthetic and ethical potential of new through fragments because what is invisible is what matters the most.” The statue is a luminous and arresting presence located on
photovoltaic technologies. Rooms. Novel Living Concepts, XXI Triennale di Milano, the grounds close to the cellar building. It is framed by the sky which sets the white marble alight and brings it into sharp relief against
D1 by Francesco Librizzi tells the story of the discovery of domestic space. Viale Alemagna 6. Exhibition until September 12 th the green profile of the hilly backdrop that surrounds the estate.

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