"12" – The international design at Ca' Pesaro and Palazzo Fortuny
At the same time of the
14th International Architecture Exhibition,
Ca' Pesaro and
Palazzo Fortuny present “
12”, the exhibition that proposes furniture items of design by famous international designers in the museum path of the two prestigious venetian venues. All the objects on display have been designed for
Glas Italia who, together with the
Civic Museums of Venice, have conceive the exhibition with a specific aim: to look with different eyes the object of design bringing it back to its natural function of use. Therefore, visitors will have the opportunity to admire the works but they are also invited to enjoy the objects of design scattered along the exhibition path.
12 extraordinary furniture items by different designers will be on display until the 14th of July 2014. The famous creators are:
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Piero Lissoni, Michele De Lucchi, Nendo, Jean-Marie Massaud, Naoto Fukasawa,Ron Gilad, Johanna Grawunder, Jasper Morrison, Tokujin Yoshioka, Elena Cutolo and
Ettore Sottsass,
This exhibition was created to bring the design object to its natural function of use.
The visit starts from the glass, the main material which is declined in different ways to better match with the characteristics of spaces and different content and with products created by the talent of some of the most influential names of classic and contemporary design.
The works of design like benches, chairs and consoles are located in the spaces of the
International Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of
Ca' Pesaro and in
Palazzo Fortuny not only as works to admire but also as objects of particular use, turning the Museum into a physical place to live.
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