Location Post design
Days 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27,
Address Via della Moscova, 27
Zone porta venezia
The Post Design Gallery presents a last black vision, a final, radiant collection designed by Raffaello Biagetti that exceeds the idea of living, hiding oneself in an “interior interior”.
The oblivious little monster can do nothing else but observe.
Lamiere Crude is a collection of objects in leather and iron that provide an opening into a very particular domestic scenario. It uses artistic themes in order to guide us back to a more functional dimension of the object, where the fascinating properties of the material itself play a decisive role.
These furnishings suggest a theatrical dimension to living and win us over through their many hidden details that reveal a rare talent, perhaps closer to that of a sculptor than of a designer, with a unique expressivity, rich in charming and delicate allusions.
Raffaello Biagetti
An eclectic and visionary figure born in Florence in 1940 who passed away in 2008 in Ravenna. He worked as a painter in Santarcangelo di Romagna where he began his figurative research, dedicating himself to painting until 1975. In 1968 his family gave him the task of managing their furniture shop in Ravenna. With this opportunity he moved to Ravenna permanently and designed his first collection of objects “No place” (“Sine loco”). This first experience led to a second collection in 1973 – “Earth” (“Terrae”), a collection of apparently poor terracotta objects, finally leading to the most recent collections “Iron and Fire” (“Ferro e Fuoco”) in 1989 and Mostrilli in 1998.
In the early 1980s Biagetti founded the “Museum of Contemporary Furnishing” (il Museo dell’Arredo Contemporaneo) in Ravenna. This museum project was conceived and created with the help of Filippo Alison, Giovanni Klaus Koenig, Giuseppe Chigiotti and Ettore Sottsass who designed the main gallery and the entrance hall creating a mosaic measuring 45m². After some years Biagetti defined the museum project as “a Utopian Installation – romantic, seductive, ironic, dramatic…”
Main pubblications
The Dream of Form – monograph (1965)
The Evil Breast (1973)
Paintings and Objects (Edizioni Essegì 2000)
Post Design
Post Design is the Memphis Showroom and continually shows the furniture and objects of the historic collection Memphis Milano.
Post Design was created by Alberto Bianchi Albrici together with Ettore Sottsass who, as well as designing the logo, also contributed to the launch of the brand with important collections such as “Lo Specchio di Saffo” and “Mobili Lunghi”. Having quickly established itself as a reference point for international Design it has hosted numerous exhibitions and has attracted some of the most important names on the international design stage such as J.Grawunder, P.Charpin, Denis Santachiara, Nathalie Du Pasquier, George J.Sowden, Karim Rashid, Markus Benesch, Ron Arad e Nanda Vigo.
Curator Alberto Biagetti
For further information, contact
Sonia Galbiati
Galleria Post Design
Tel.: +39 (0) 2 6554731
