LAKE COMO DESIGN FESTIVAL is back
Open until the coming Sunday, this year’s Lake Como Design Festival, in its fourth edition, has as its theme Neo-nomadism, “a concept moving seamlessly between real and digital life in a survey of new movements of culture and labour.” The program includes exhibitions, a series of talks, a widespread itinerary and guided tours of Como’s rationalism.
ERRANTI, l’arte oltre il limite del visibile (art beyond the limits of the visible), is a selection curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti (FAM) in a route that starts with Palazzo Broletto and continues with the other festival venues. The curator chose 20 important personalities from the world of art and design on her own personal intepretation of “a nomadic condition poised between physical and symbolic territories”.
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The magnificent Nobel Hall of the Casartelli Science Museum host contemporary products; Design Contemporary Selection displays the projects of independent designers selected by the festival together with Catawiki. All the works presented will be put up for sale through an online auction that will end on Sunday 25 September. You can participate in the auction and win your favorite piece here. Among the designers, Anita Morvillo, Foro Studio, Næssi Studio x Studio F, STUDIO TERRE, StudioNotte, Giulia Ferraris e A.Vetra.
Design is also present at Casa Bianca; the historic residence opens to the general public for the first time on the occasion of this fourth year of the Lake Como Design Festival. The villa will host a selection of designers’ works in its rooms in cooperation with Galerie Philia, an international gallery of contemporary design and modern art. Here we can find the works of dAM Atelier, Lorenzo Bini, Agustina Bottoni, CARA / DAVIDE, Draga & Aurel, Imperfettolab, Serafini and many others.
Movimento Club presents the exhibition “In Search of Lost Time” in the splendid setting of Villa Gallia. A selection of contemporary designers which try to refer to the homonymous work by Marcel Proust – it’s not very clear how. In the splendid neoclassical interiors we can find the pieces by Jordan Lee Flemming, Satomi Minoshima, Sarah Murphy, Oliver Cook, Intervallo, TIPSTUDIO, Min Park, Studio F, Arequipe, CELO, MILLIM, Federica Elmo, SECOLO, to name a few. The exhibition is curated by Movimento Club, the set design conceived by Greta Cevenini and produced with the support of Italstand. (continues)
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Curated by journalist Prashanth Cattaneo, the Refreshment design talks explore the subject of neo-nomadism from varied perspectives with the aim of stimulating a discussion that will contribute to the design debate. Tonight the third and final talk, with Everywhere design. The spreading of things in the places where we live. At 7.30 pm, Portico del Broletto.
Once again (the fourth), Lake Como Design Festival presents itself as an interesting event that tries to offer exhibitions, reflections and studies. However, during this edition, we noticed that exhibitions and design selections are a bit superficial. A difficult theme tackled in a theoretical and general way; exhibitions that, by contrast with historic villas and classical beauty, are Instagrammable, but far from real reflections. There are many notable designs, but there isn’t a common thread. Moreover, the quality of the set up and the event communication must be higher: plugs shouldn’t be visible and visitors shouldn’t be on the hunt for the location.
However, we invite you to visit Lake Como Design Festival, its exhibitions and the splendid historic villas, open only for the occasion. The cost of the ticket is 15 euros. For more information visit the festival website and follow it on Instagram!
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