KARTELL MUSEO

The Kartell Museum, founded by Claudio Luti in 1999 to celebrate Kartell’s fiftieth anniversary, is the custodian and narrator of one of the most fertile and fascinating chapters in the history of Italian design. It illustrates a unique reality that has witnessed the amazing marriage of plastic and design, animated by the constant commitment to the “technological challenge” that characterises all the items on display. The layout by Ferruccio Laviani displays over a thousand items that have been part of our everyday lives from 1949 (year of Kartell’s foundation) to the present. It covers an area of 2500 m2 in the Kartell building designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri and Ignazio Gardella in 1967, and displays car accessories, household goods, lamps, labware, furniture and furnishing accessories, that are part of the over sixty years of Kartell’s history. Winner of the Guggenheim Impresa & Cultura Award for the best corporate museum, the Kartell Museum preserves about 4,000 products, 15,000 photographs, 5,000 drawings that can be consulted by scholars and researchers. The Kartell Museum aims to promote the culture of design to the public with guided tours, research, international exhibitions and publications, such as the recent monograph Kartell. The Culture of Plastics, published by Taschen, which presents the more than sixty years of Kartell through the voices of the protagonist and the designers, but also the images and photographs from the museum archives. Project Architect: Ferruccio Laviani Photographer: Santi Caleca For more '>http://flos.com'>