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Exhibitions, events, authors
Happenings
no.3/06 p.11
HAPPY VISIONS!
With “Pyramid in the
Pacific - Architectural and
Geopolitical Ideas for the
Ruins of Ryugyong Hotel
in Pyongyang, North
Korea”, Domus magazine
introduced at the Milan
Triennale the outcome of
idea consultations
launched in June 2005
concerning the reuse of
this incomplete 330 m
high concrete building.
120 projects and ideas
from throughout the
world suggest realistic,
eccentric, brilliant and
often provocative
solutions to transform a
symbol of the titanic
power of despots into a
new aerial for global
communications. Along
with these projects,
Domus has just
proposed original images
of Pyongyang projected
in a hall furnished with
armchairs Sacco
provided by Zanotta for
the occasion.
ZANOTTA AND XELION
The 5th Xelion Financial
Village, travelling kermis
of Zanotta furnishings
displayed in the halls of
exclusive sites at meetings
held in 2006, has set off
from the Pistoletto
Foundation in Biella.
The new set of theme
appointments on
economic markets’ current
scenes will focus especially
on Xelion Advice, an
innovative investment
service. The meetings -
open to the public and
organised by UniCredit
Xelion Banca - will touch
eight laps in enchanting
spots numbering Palazzo
Corsini in Florence, the
prestigious Ville Ponti
Congress Centre in Varese,
Villa Pignatelli in Naples,
the Rancia castle in
Tolentino, Santo Spirito in
Saxia in Rome and the
historical Hunting Lodge
in Stupinigi. Last lap,
Messina with its sea, and
Sicilian gothic architecture.
HISTORICAL SEATS
AT THE MAK
On 13th June an original
review of “suspended”
historical seats -
“Cantilever Chairs” - will
open at the Museum of
Applied Arts and
Contemporary Art in
Vienna. 80 years of seating
inventions based on the
simple cantilever principle
will be displayed, starting
from the first tubular steel
prototype presented by the
famous Mart Stam in the
’20s and numbering
Marcel Breuer, Mies Van
der Rohe and
contemporary Tom Dixon
and Ross Lovegrove.
Zanotta - the sponsor - will
participate in the exhibition
with the seat Mezzadro
designed by the Castiglioni
brothers (design 1957):
this unusual stool adds a
touch of irony, the superb
intuition of ergonomics
and a still surprising
flexibility to the original
idea of suspended seat.
DESIGN AND
TECHNOLOGY
Which technological
innovations lead to present
day furnishing products?
How far do new materials
influence contemporary
décor? On these questions
investigates the VIA /
Industries Francaises de
l’Ameublement with the
exhibition set up in Paris:
“Surfaces and Materials for
Decorating and
Personalizing”. As the
curator Gerard Laize
anticipates: «the birth of
new materials, technologies
and processes are opening
inconceivable creative
fields». Zanotta
participates in the event
with two armchairs, which
are the outcome of
considerable research: the
new Dora with floral
decorations - by L. and R.
Palomba - and the
historical Sacco covered
with Missoni Home’s Scilla
fabric. Open till 25th June.
ANNIVERSARIES
Contemporary design has
a privileged seat in Nimes,
the French city that is
famous for its wines and
magnificent Roman
amphitheatre: it is
Domus, one of the
region’s most exclusive
showrooms, celebrating
30 years of business with
a historical retrospective
on furnishings from 1976
to 2006. «The mobilier
d’architecte finds one of
its most representative
productions in Zanotta»,
says Alain Recolin, patron
of Domus and enthusiast
promoter of meetings and
events on the value and
meaning of design. «This
is my entire world. How
can we fail to acknowledge
design’s primary role of
expression and cultural
and social transference?».
No. 11, Rue de l’Horloge,
Nimes - 29 June - 31
December. Cocktail on the
29th from 6:00 pm.
FREUD ON SHOW
To celebrate 150 years from
the birth of Prof. Freud,
Prague and Vienna have
organised two special
exhibitions. In the famous
psychoanalyst’s native city,
the Sigmund Freud Museum
has organised the exhibition
“The Couch: Thinking in
Repose” till 5th November.
Zanotta is one of the event’s
sponsors with the sofa Freud
designed by Todd Bracher
(2002). It is a homage to the
famous sofa, now treasured
at the Freud Museum,
London, and which seated
the great Austrian
neurologist’s patients for
numberless years. Happy
Birthday, Dr. Freud!
Editorial project Giuliana Zoppis
Graphic design Stefania Giarlotta
Coordination and supervision Zanotta spa
Picture (p. 10) Georg Mayer/MAK
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