Born a Roma at Museum of XNUMXst Century Arts (MAXXI) the Collection of Contemporary design of the MAXXI on display the first acquisitions tell the current design scene: industrial, collectible, digital, new materials, anonymous.
The twelve designated to the Collection between studios and individual designers
Anonymous artisan architects; Bloc Studios; Ghostform; Stef Fusani; Kstas Lambridis; Maximilian Marchesani; Jasper Morrison; Object of Common Iterest (ooCI); Older Studio; Rehub; Martina Taranto; Studio Plastique; Snohetta and Fornace Brioni
This is a collection in five categories defined with the contribution of Joseph Grima, architect, curator, founder of the Space Caviar studio and creative director of the Design Academy of Eindhoven.
Industrial design, for projects with a refined aesthetic quality for mass production; Collectible Design, where the artist collaborates with the company right from the sketch in order to create a unique example or a limited series, Anonymous Design, where the added value is the functional one; the New materials, projects
capable of integrating innovation and sustainability into design; Digital design, aimed at new media and their constant evolution.
If it is true that Italy has played a pioneering role in the field of industrial design, producing furniture, lamps and objects present in museums and homes all over the world, it is now important to investigate its evolution and question its future developments.
Sections and projects on display
Industrial Design
Bloc Studios
Clelia vase (Design Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi), 2018
Ondamarmo table (Design Federica Elmo), 2019
Jasper Morrison
Trattoria chair, 2009
Older Studio (Letizia Caramia and Morten Thuesen)
FJORDENHUS – A BESPOKE UNIFORM PROJECT, 2020
uniforms for the employees of the Lyst restaurant, located inside the Fjordenhus building designed by Olafur
Eliasson in the city of Vejle (Denmark)
Collectible Design
Anonymous Artisan Architects
Mediterranean Proportion – Vase 02, 2021
Stef Fusani
Becoming stone #3, 2023
Costas Lambridis
Lapsus materiae, 2023
Maximilian Marchesani
Family (16), 2023
OoCI – Object of Common Interest
Tube Column lamp, 2023
New Materials
Formafantasma
Botany – Vasi I, VI, 2021
rehub
Fragments of the lagoon, 2023
Studio Plastique – Snøhetta – Fornace Brioni
Forite, 2021
Martina Taranto
Viral nature, 2023
Anonymous Design
FPM-E FPM-E mask model produced by Fameccanica (Angelini group)
Digital Design
Space Caviar
Hide and Seek in Architecture, a video game created by the studio for the exhibition
ALTO – Aino Alvar Elissa The human dimension of the project, in collaboration with
Meta: an immersive experience in the Meta Quest VR environment that
