From this Friday you can see the exhibition "Italian Design: the beauty of everyday life between Italy and Argentina” at the National Museum of Decorative Art, an exhibition that covers the most representative objects in the history of the European country between the post-war period and the present.

Under the curatorship of Silvana Annicchiarico, this exhibition has the support of the Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires and aims to account for the quality of research work, projection and experimentation that is characteristic of designers, Italian designers and companies.

through this journey, the public will have the opportunity to appreciate the main evolutionary lines that have characterized the history of Italian design since 1945 until today. In that context, the route has been arranged chronologically to represent all the great phases of contemporary Italian history through 58 objects.

The tour of the exhibition is segmented into chronological sections and brings together pieces by world-famous designers, from Gio Ponti hasta Ettore Sottsass, Michele De Lucchi, Vico Magistretti, Bruno Munari, Gaetano Pesce and Marco Zanuso. It also presents fundamental objects, como la lámpara Bat de Gae Aulenti, the Proust armchair by Alessandro Mendini and the Napoletana coffee maker designed by Riccardo Dalisi for the firm Alessi.

The five chronological sections that articulate the exhibition are: post war, reconstruction and economic boom (1945-1963); objectual democracy and the fetishes of consumption (1964-1972); the crisis and the communication of emotions (1973-1983): after modernity (1984-1998) and the new millennium and design as a mass profession (1998-2022).

This exhibition can be visited at the Avenida del Libertador venue 1902 until the 29 from January with free admission and from Wednesday to Sunday from 13 a 19 hours.

According to Donatella Cannova, director of the Italian Institute of Culture of Buenos Aires, “It has been aimed at giving an account of the capacity of the Italian design system to respond to the needs that emerge in society from the post-war period to the present day, proposing solutions appropriate to the 'spirit of the times', contextualized and participating in a process of redesigning the world, from an idea that is at the origin of the object”.