5/5 Adriana R. 5 years ago on Google • 166 reviews
A
spectacular
“container”
for
a
very
interesting
exhibition
5
The
"container"
is
the
master
apartment
on
the
ground
floor
of
a
building
designed
and
built
between
1934
and
1936
by
the
architect
Piero
Portaluppi,
transformed
by
Massimo
De
Carlo
into
his
own
art
gallery:
the
philological
and
conservative
restoration
carried
out
by
Studio
Binocle,
with
the
consultancy
of
Antonio
Citterio
and
the
supervision
of
the
Superintendency
of
Archaeology,
Fine
Arts
and
Landscape
for
the
metropolitan
city
of
Milan,
has
brought
it
back
to
its
original
splendor
and
the
empty
apartment
is
a
true
marvel,
a
riot
of
environments
large
and
bright
in
which
precious
materials
were
used
for
the
flooring
and
finishes
(especially
marble,
but
also
stone,
wood
and
metal
alloys).
The
details
are
truly
spectacular:
the
walls
of
the
entrance
hall
decorated
with
a
tempera
depicting
the
area
of
the
Po
Valley
with
villages,
fauna
and
landscape;
the
floors
made
with
large
walnut
tiles
linked
by
aluminum
joints;
the
internal
doors
in
walnut
(with
lozenge
designs);
the
equipped
furniture
that
frames
the
oak
windows
(beauty
and
functionality
never
separated!!);
marble
fireplaces
embellished
with
metal
alloys;
the
plaster
ceilings
with
coffered,
diamond-shaped
and
linear
bands;
the
corner
fireplace
with
the
cone-shaped
hood
decorated
with
stucco;
the
bathrooms
covered
in
marble
(the
courtesy
bathroom
has
an
anteroom
with
walls
covered
in
walnut
feathers!!);
…
The
exhibition
is
titled
MCMXXXIV,
which
is
the
year
the
construction
of
the
building
began,
but
also
a
historically
important
year
for
the
entire
world;
inaugurated
on
8
March
and
open
to
visitors
until
18
May
2019,
curated
by
Massimo
De
Carlo
and
Francesco
Bonami,
it
exhibits
works
from
the
1930s
put
in
relation
with
works
by
contemporary
artists:
a
very
interesting
operation,
regardless
of
the
personal
"liking"
of
the
individual
works.
NB.
It
is
also
worth
carefully
observing
the
exterior
of
the
building
(in
reality
it
is
a
complex
of
buildings
with
equally
finished
facades
placed
around
a
green
area)
which,
half
hidden
by
the
trees
of
Viale
Lombardia,
is
almost
invisible.
;
it
is
particular,
for
the
elegance
of
the
finishes
and
the
design:
the
covering
of
the
lower
floors
of
the
facades
(the
facing)
in
pink
and
gray
Ornavasso
marble,
the
balconies
with
lozenge
balustrades,
the
portholes
between
the
large
square
windows
of
the
facing
facade
the
garden,
the
helical
staircase
made
of
blocks
of
solid
marble
(used
in
the
Casa
del
Sabato
for
the
newlyweds,
a
temporary
construction
presented
at
the
Milan
Triennale
in
1933
based
on
a
design
by
Portaluppi
and
the
young
BBPR).
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