Palazzo Broggi, Via Tommaso Grossi, 10
17-21 aprile
Mon h. 11-15, Tue h. 11-17, Wed, Fri, Sat h. 11-21 There are many stories told by the furniture pieces and objects on display both in the vault and on the ground floor of the former Credito Italiano bank premises in Piazza Cordusio to celebrate 50 years of the Cassina iMaestri collection. As many as the masters of Modernism who designed them. Immersed in a theatrical set dominated by red lights (like the brand's signature colour), there are, for example, Franco Albini’s crystal radio (disassembled on a suspended table), the silver edition of Vico Magistretti's Maralunga sofa (resting on old safety deposit boxes) and, again, prototypes of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s chairs lying on a pile of sawdust. Above all, however, the selection made by exhibition curators Patricia Urquiola (who is also the brand’s art director and exhibition designer) and Federica Sala, with the support of Cassina archive curator Barbara Lehmann, was instrumental in presenting the method and research that the company has been carrying out since 1973. Videos, documents, photographs and drawings reveal a far-sighted and coherent approach, in refined balance between philological attention and contemporaneity, and rigour, also thanks to the constant dialogue with the foundations and heirs.