Open Talks: Women within institutions

Pavilion 3 - Arena

With issues of diversity and equity under scrutiny now more than ever, Tony Chambers will lead a lively discussion investigating why many of our major international design museums and cultural institutions have for too long been deprived of a female point of view. Tulga Beyerle, Director of Hamburg Museum of Applied Arts, Alexandra Cunningham, Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Lilli Hollein, Director of MAK Wien will discuss their roles, responsibilities and goals to remedy this shameful historical imbalance.

Salone Selection

Houses for reading. When interiors become autobiographies

Cabana, Neptune and Scenery: three independent magazines that view the home not as a model to be imitated, but as a portrait of those who live there

Francesca Spiller

Parentesi lamp, designed by Achille Castiglioni and Pio Manzù, Flos

Stories

10 pieces revive 70s design. Boasting new comfort and creative freedom

The Parentesi and Boalum lamps, the Camaleonda and Strips sofas, the Joe armchair and other furnishing pieces. All revolutionary, channelling functionality and freedom and engendering infinite combinations for a new collective imagination

Patrizia Malfatti

Excelsior, designed by Giovanni Sardi, Venice Lido - Ph. Florian Fuchs

Stories

Living at the seaside: 13 architectural designs that have shaped the Italian summer

From the first 19th-century bathing establishment to Aldo Rossi’s unrealized visions, the Italian coasts preserve an architectural heritage that recounts the development of tourism, taste and the relations between people and the landscape