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PALAZZO PEPOLI – MUSEO DELLA STORIA DI BOLOGNA
The work done concerns both the architectural project of transforming and renovating the palazzo as well as the exhibition design for the works on display. The architect carries out his work inside the building. “Inside, in the heart of the Palazzo, an umbrella tower of glass and steel reinvents...
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MARIO BELLINI ARCHITECTS
Mario Bellini is an architect and designer internationally renowned. He received the Golden Compass Award eight times and 25 of his works are in the permanent design collection of the New York MoMA, which dedicated to him a personal retrospective in 1987. He was editor of Domus magazine (1985-1991). He has designed countless art, design and architecture exhibitions over the years, both in Italy and abroad. The last one is the first ever Giotto complete exibition in Palazzo Reale.
Since the 1980’s, dedicating himself almost entirely to architecture, the manifold buildings he has designed include the Portello Trade Fair district in Milan, the Villa Erba Exhibition and Convention Centre in Cernobbio (Como), the Tokyo Design Centre in Japan, the Natuzzi America Headquarters in the United States, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Deutsche Bank Headquartes in Frankfurt, the City History Museum of Bologna, the Department of Islamic Art at the Louvre in Paris, and the new Milan Convention Centre, the largest in Europe.
He has various projects at the design stage, among which, the “New Eco-City” of Zhenjiang in China (2013-2018) and a large Residential, Cultural and Sports Complex in Qatar (2014-2022).
City: MILAN
Nation: ITALY
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CAB LOUNGE
Armchair with tubular steel frame. Stiff leather upholstery zippered over the frame, available in fi ve colours: black, brown, taupe, China red and blue.The seat cushion is padded with CFC-free polyurethane foam and feather. The headrest and backrest cushions are feather padded and fi xed to the...
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CAB NIGHT
The Cab Night brings the richness of materials and attention to detail to the bedroom. The structure and the legs of the bed are upholstered in saddle leather, just like the other members of the family, and particular saddlery craftsmanship details are visible in the joints between the various...
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BRAQUE
Mario Bellini is presenting a new coffee table, Braque, whose abstract soul challenges the plasticity of its material. As if it were a painting, the individual fragments virtually shatter the surface yet come together to create a compact table made from a single mould. It is instantly recognisable...
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SHARD
Glacette in transparent or mass-dyed thermoplastic technopolymer materials, colours: crystal, amber, plum, caviar, emerald, lapis lazuli, ruby red...
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OPERA
The collection of tables Opera by Mario Bellini, presented last year by Meritalia, has grown – with new sizes and functions, besides new materials – on occasion of the Salone del Mobile 2015. On the side of round and oval tables we now find square and rectangular tables. Many among this range will...
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SEAT OPERA
Opera collection grows thanks to a new piece of furniture: following its distinctive mark it now generates a chair. This time the characteristic crossed-rib basket embraces, contains and support a transparent one-piece seat. These two elements together increase their mutual value in a new...
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