Yesterday evening, the design community gathered in Bloomingdale’s New York flagship store to celebrate the opening of the Salone del Mobile.Milano’s installation Italian Design: from Classic to Contemporary. Curated by Ferruccio Laviani, this tribute to Italian design culture will be on display until September 29th. The installation will be accompanied by a series of engaging talks entitled Conversations about Italian Design, curated by Annalisa Rosso.
The Salone del Mobile.Milano chose the United States, a reference market for the contract sector and large projects alike, to kick off a rich program of international events that in 2024-25 will take the contents, protagonists and unique features of the Salone all over the world in this series of major events, talks and conferences.
Maria Porro, President of Salone del Mobile.Milano explains: “We are happy to return to New York as the first stop on a new journey that will take us all over the world to present the Salone del Mobile.Milano as the event that enhances the quality, heritage, vision and passion of Italian design companies and all our exhibitors.”
The project Italian Design: from Classic to Contemporary, which unfolds in Bloomingdale’s Home/Furnishingdepartment, consists of a selection of Italian design pieces that include icons and novelties from the catalogues of 23 emblematic brands as an expression of Italian furniture production at its finest: Artemide, Edra, Flexform, Flou, Foscarini, Frigerio, Gallotti&Radice, Gessi, Kartell, Lema, Living Divani, Minotti, Molteni&C, Oluce, Porro, Riva 1920, Scavolini, Sigma L2, Tacchini, Technogym, Turri, Villari, Visionnaire.
The installation was inaugurated in the presence of Fabrizio Di Michele, Italy’s Consul General in New York, with a talk that brought together President of Salone del Mobile.Milano Maria Porro, Bloomingdale’s Fashion Director Kelley Carter, Curator and Founder of SaloneSatellite Marva Griffin Wilshire, and architect Ferruccio Laviani moderated by Felix Burrichter, Founder of PIN-UP magazine.
The series of talks continues on September 11th with Eleni Petaloti, Co-founder of Objects of Common Interest, who will dialogue with Qiyao Li, Associate Principal at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, alongside moderator Ingrid Abramovitch, Executive Editor of ELLE DECOR. On September 18th, artist Francesco Simeti and Stefano Giussani, Partner & COO Lissoni Architecture New York, will explore. moderated by Wendy Goodman, Design Editor of NEW YORK magazine, the relationship of contemporary design with classical Italian culture.
When: September 5th - 29th, 2024
Where: Bloomingdale’s 59th Street, 1000 Third Ave, New York, NY, Level 6
