MARKUS BENESCH/ CURIOUS BOY – IL LABORATORIO DIMENTICATO

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In 2019 a workshop was discovered in the heart of Milan. The discovery was spectacular. Somehow the space managed to simultaneously reflect the distant past and the remote future. Inside, found objects and furniture had been constructed from rare and unknown raw materials. The objects within remained in perfect condition for many years, only recently unearthed by chance.

Through the analysis of letters, drawings and the objects, it was ultimately determined that a man named Severin Munch-Prokorny, was deeply involved in this project. Severely traumatized after the horrors of World War II, he dreamed of a humane and better life on a different and distant planet. He assembled a group of scientists, designers and craftsmen to carry out his plan and in 1955 they began to transport people to the planet MP-4753Y.

The workshop in Milan was dedicated to design and build furniture for this distant planet: tables, cupboards, armchairs, vases, wallpaper, chambers for tele-transportation and even sketches for outer terrestrial cooking.

Until now, nobody knows what happened and why the workshop suddenly closed down from one day to the next.