Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti reopens to the public and presents the exhibition Magistretti Revisited.
As in a game of nested Chinese boxes, the exhibition narrates Vico’s work as an architect and designer, his Milanese studio and his bond with the city.
The first box is Milan, a city much loved and at the same time severely criticized, a city he saw through the window of his studio. The second box is the studio where Vico worked throughout his life, with Franco Montella by his side; a studio so small that it constantly amazes visitors, but one that also narrates a working method precisely through its size. The third box contains the archive of sixty years of projects, now open to all thanks to the portal archivio.vicomagistretti.it; the archive is below the studio, and supports it (not just physically), giving it stories (of products and manufacturers, buildings and clients) that become words and pathways in the exhibitions, the guided visits and the books.
Milan, the studio and the archive are illustrated through interviews, notes, drawings and objects of Magistretti, in an installation that is an attempt at synthesis between philological reconstruction and reinterpretation of the original atmosphere of the place where Vico and Franco Montella spent their days, thanks to the recovery of the original furnishings of the studio.
| Hours | By Reservation Only |
| Venue | Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti |
| Type | Museum Exhibition |
| Duration | By Reservation Only |
| City | Milan |
About
Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti
Fondazione studio museo Vico Magistretti was set up in 2010 and it is dedicated to the Milanese architect and designer who contributed to create and spread internationally the Italian Design between the sixties and the nineties of the last century. Fondazione Vico Magistretti sets out to safeguard and enhance the archive and with it Vico Magistretti’s work, but, above all, it aims to be “a non-profit, permanent institution in the service of society and its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits the tangible and intangible heritage of humanity and its environment for the purposes of education, study and enjoyment”, thereby conforming to the definition of a museum set down by the International Council of Museums (ICOM). The foundation aims to serve the general public by displaying not just artefacts designed by the architect but also the design process which led to their creation through archive documents.
