Campo Base 2023

On the occasion of Milano Design Week 2023, Campo Base presents: a manifesto for interiors, signed by six Italian architecture studios and curated by Federica Sala

Campo Base is a utopia of design in which six Italian design studios joined forces in a shared architectural endeavor. In the frenetic context of the Fuorisalone, this designer utopia becomes even more utopic, offering visitors a moment of respite, reflection, and calmness.

Campo Base is a manifesto on contemporary interior design. It is self-produced and self-managed by six Italian-based architecture studios: Massimo Adario (Rome), Giuliano Andrea dell’Uva (Naples), Eligostudio (Milan), Marcante-Testa (Turin), Hannes Peer (Milan) and Studiopepe (Milan).

Much like a contemporary architectonic consortium, Campo Base is a training exercise in collective design, where the studios tackled the difficulties of functioning contemporaneously as both individuals and a society.

Campo Base is a hypothetical non-place in which to explore the concept of domestic intimacy through the considerations of six design studios united by their willingness to grapple with a challenging shared exercise in design. Campo Base is a village. It is an encampment. Most certainly, it is a micro architectonic community whose sparce shared spaces become the backdrop for a diversity of design in the individual settings, all of which aim to explore the concept of domestic intimacy. By crossing the thresholds of the hidden entrances behind the folds of the common scenery, which act as a watershed between our existence in the outside world and our domestic selves, we enter the individual universes.

On the occasion of Milano Design Week 2023, Campo Base presents: a manifesto on the interior, signed by six Italian architecture studios and curated by Federica Sala.