The ARTIGO installation by Studio Ragni at Palazzo Litta, Milan during the off Salone 2016 was a great success.
The beautiful baroque staircase and stained glass windows accentuated the creativity and visual impact of the project that features fine textures and a rich palette of colors of the ARTIGO floors, as well as the illustrious origins of their success. “ARTIGO. Neverending Evolution” is one of the most photographed exhibits within the collective “A MATTER oF PERCEPTION: Tradition & Technology”, curated by DAMn and MoscaPartners.
The ARTIGO company has presented itself for the first time on the stage of the Milan Design Week with an installation that has been able to speak to the professionals of design and architecture.
The impressive staircase of Palazzo Litta has become the place where the company’s history unfolds, through the creation of a long visual path, consisting of a multitude of rubber floor samples, that take visitors, along the central flight of stairs and the lateral ones, up to the main floor of the Palace.
Halfway, on the first landing, one of Milan’s underground trains, made with samples of ARTIGO floors on different panels, forms a mural and seems to run towards visitors.
The second landing leads to the exhibition, with the installations of the first floor which includes a series of totems and the other collections by ARTIGO: the most recent – as the innovative Screed as well as Lava and Natura – but also the timeless ones, born from the collaboration with Sottsass Associati.
The project requirements have determined the shape and lighting effects of the lamps, all custom made by the Italian company Bilumen: the panels of the murals were masterfully illuminated by
tailored LED lamps and the composition placed on the main ramp was animated by 30 small LED sources, whose purpose was to highlight and to give depth to the soft multicolored waterfall.
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