One Hundred Years of the Triennale and the Museo del Design 2023 exhibition aims to tell the story of design from the 1920s to today, attempting a continuous dialogue between memory and the contemporary .
An ambitious task that the director of the Marco Sammicheli Museum solves with a popular passion, as a great lover of design and its history. We asked him how he managed to find a common thread to build a narrative that everyone could understand.
Sammicheli has a clear mission: to give the public the opportunity to better understand design.
From the 1920s to today, one hundred years of design in one exhibition. What criteria did you follow to select the exhibited works?
Marco Sammicheli: “Celebrating the anniversary of the Triennale means imagining a museum that covers a time span from its origins to the present.
The backbone is the culture of interior design, the true generative vein of Italian design.
In proto-industrial times, design is in the hands of architects, who design unique pieces, sartorial solutions, environments imagined in every detail. A typicality of our culture that can be part of that love for beauty that distinguishes us.
Design begins when architects deliver the project to serial production. Beauty becomes collective".