ART COLORS DESIGN / Salvati & Tresoldi x Saporiti Italia

ADI Design Museum, Milano
October 7th – 22th 2023

The exhibition ART COLORS DESIGN / Salvati & Tresoldi x Saporiti Italia, held at the
ADI Design Museum in Milan from 7 to 22 October 2023, traces ten years of intense
collaboration between Saporiti Italia, a historic Italian design company founded in 1948
by Sergio Saporiti in Besnate (Varese), and Studio Salvati & Tresoldi.

The exhibition itinerary highlights the peculiarities that characterised the design encounter between these two companies, starting from the close relationship between art, architecture and design. An intuition, forerunner at the time, that Salvati & Tresoldi’s work was able to develop both with the creation of historic furnishing objects produced in the 1980s by Saporiti Italia – such as the Omaggi and Diana chairs, the Geometric and El Lissitksy tables and the Miamina armchair, exhibited together with drawings and publications – and with memorable experiences such as the ‘Moderno e Moderno’ exhibition at the Galleria del Milione.

With their work between 1960 and 1980, Salvati & Tresoldi animated the Milanese cultural scene, bringing the confluence of art and architecture to the centre of their research, especially through the use of colour.

Together with to the story of Salvati & Tresoldi’s research on architecture and design, the Saporiti Italia exhibition dedicates an important section to the re-edition of the historic Miamina chair (Honourable Mention at the Compasso d’Oro Award in 1985) in a new version inspired by 20 cities around the world: Miami, Milan, Rome, Venice, Paris, London, Barcelona, Berlin, Monte Carlo, New York, Los Angeles, Dubai, Riyadh, Lagos, Singapore, Shanghai, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney.
The canvas of the chairs dedicated to the “Saporiti Cities” are made by art laboratory FoscaMilano with precious fabrics, yarns, weaves and embroideries, inspired by the characteristics of each of the cities where Saporiti Italia has realised important projects.

Each of the 20 Miamina chairs inspired by the ‘Saporiti Cities’ and produced in a single numbered piece, will be auctioned by Cambi Auction House in a time-auction held in conjunction with the ‘Art Colors Design’ exhibition. The proceeds of the auction will be destined by Saporiti Italia to support and promote the cultural and social activities of the Sergio Saporiti Foundation, to enhance the knowledge and development of industrial design, architecture, art and creativity.