Independent Italian design and beyond returns to the fair with EDIT Napoli, from 29 to 31 October 2021

As usual for three years now, from 29 to 31 October 2021 EDIT Naples is back, the fair conceived by Emilia Petruccelli and Domitilla Dardi and dedicated to editorial and author design. For its third edition, which follows the second appointment last year held via digital due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the event will be held at the Monumental Complex of San Domenico Maggiore, to which are added some symbolic places of the city of Naples.

Quality is the password

The upcoming edition of EDIT Napoli counts over 80 exhibitors, including designers independent, authors and editors of design, Italian and international creators and producers who wish to bring to light initiatives and projects that promote territoriality, expression of research and the transparency of the supply chain. All values ​​that summarize the care and freedom of independent design. Quality is the keyword. All the participants share a single creed: quantity plays an ultimate role here.

An acknowledgment was also announced, in its own name, of the authenticity and values ​​mentioned above. By the end of this month, in fact, the jury of Edit Napoli, this year composed of the Italian designers Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin - Formafantasma , from interior and furniture designer French Dorothée Meilichzon , from the creators of Sight Unseen from New York, Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer , and the web director of ELLE Decor Italia - Alessandro Valenti , will elect the best projects in the name of the essence of the event. That is, they respond to a form of intelligent design, which respects the cultural heritage and at a well-balanced price.

The news

EDIT Napoli 2021 inaugurates a service, developed by the creators Petruccelli and Dardi with the extreme care that distinguishes them: ' Atlas ' is the means made available of players and buyers to be able to navigate and orient themselves among selected names of designers and designers.

Great space, as the soul of the project wants, is reserved for emerging talents, who this year are 30 - between realities existing for less than 3 years and participants under 30 The area dedicated to them is called “Seminario” and to welcome them there is a temporary loft designed by the architect Giuliano Andrea Dell'Uva.

The dominant turnout of designers and planners from France, Lebanon and Holland, confirms the success of the fair at an increasingly international level.

Side events: EDIT Cult and MADE IN EDIT

During the three days of the event there are numerous appointments that extend in the different areas of the city, including installations and interactive projects. Two above all, the installation-signboard with manual movement by the French duo Canel Averna (winners of the Design Parade at Villa Noailles, Hyéres) and the kiosk designed by the Dutch Kiki & Joost - Kiki van Eijk and Joost van Bleiswijk, located inside the cloister of San Domenico Maggiore. Edit Cult - this is the name of the satellite appointment schedule around Naples - was created with the aim of promoting a dialogue between contemporary design and the symbolic places of the city's history.

The protagonist of MADE IN EDIT will instead be 'Hybrida' the collection of centerpieces born from the unprecedented collaboration between the architect-designer Patricia Urquiola and the 'Institute with a rare address Caselli - Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte. The prototypes of the collection will be at the center of an installation and a solidarity auction in collaboration with Christie's at the Institute, the proceeds of which will be donated to the restoration of the school's internal educational garden.

EDIT Naples 2021: timetables and tickets

To access the fair, you must purchase the entrance ticket, valid for the entire duration of the event, at a cost of € 10.00. You can register at the Monumental Complex of San Domenico Maggiore, or by pre-ordering the online ticket here. For visitors between 18 and 25 the cost is reduced to € 5.00 and for those under 18 the visit is free. The fair is open to the public on 29, 30, 31 October from 10am to 7pm.

EDIT Cult: the program

  • "Anthology of the Graph Anthon Beeke" edited by Lidewij Edelkoort and Charlotte Grün. At the State Archives, Piazzetta del Grande Archivio, 5.
  • Daniel Kruger solo exhibition in collaboration with Galleria Antonella Villanova, curated by Marco Bazzini. At the Museum of the Treasure of San Gennaro, via Duomo, 149.
  • Stéphanie Moussallem's exhibition for House of Today. At the Made In Cloister Foundation, Piazza Enrico de Nicola, 48.
  • La Manufacture. At the Teatro di San Carlo, via San Carlo, 98.
  • "Chest’è" by Federico Pepe, curated by Federica Sala. At the Gaetano Filangieri Civic Museum, via Duomo, 288.
  • "Hybrida" by Patricia Urquiola in collaboration with Istituto Caselli Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte. At the Capodimonte Park, Porta Miano.