Maestri – Masters of Italian Design
Museum of Applied Arts, 27. 09 – 24. 11. 2013

One of the world’s most important design museums, the Triennale Design Museum in Milan is presenting part of its huge collection in Hungary. The Maestri exhibition showcases selected items of the Museum’s permanent collection at the breathtaking interior of Museum of Applied Arts. By trying to summarize the ouvre of 21 legendary Italian designers, it features items that have both become cult objects and symbols of Design Made in Italy. Chair Superleggera by Gio Ponti, Arco floor lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Valentine typewriter by Ettore Sottsass have all become symbols of an era – and are only a few of the 100 legendary design objects on view at the Maestri exhibiton.