The passing of one of the world’s most admired designers, such as Achille Castiglioni, represents first and foremost a great loss of imagination, creative potential and his stimulating personality. It also represents the risk of losing all of the projects, drawings, photographs, models, movies, conferences, objects, work tools, books and magazines that accumulated in his studio during 60 years of activity. Over and beyond losing the special feel of one of the studios that played an important role in the history of Italian design.
La Triennale in Milan understood the importance and three years after the loss of Castiglioni, has made a five-year agreement with Castiglioni’s heirs to save and conserve “Achille’s world,” his studio, which is a precious gold mine of work and research. The project foresees cataloguing, ordering and archiving the patrimony in a modern way, on-line as well, to make it more accessible and usable by a much larger public. The symbolic ribbon-cutting ceremony of the ‘new’ Studio-Museum has been entrusted to Irma Castiglioni, whose dedication to the magical studio in Piazza Castello has been untiring over the past three years, and before.
The museum transformation will take place in two separate stages: up until December, it may be toured only by an appointment, in groups of no more than 25 persons and only between 10:30 am and 6 pm; after January there is no longer any need to book a reservation and the studio will be open until 8:30 pm, Triennale hours. The ticket price is 2 Euros. L.M.
Milano - Italy
Studio Museo Achille Castiglioni
Collezione Permanente del Design Italiano Triennale di Milano
piazza Castello 27, Milano
T +39-02-72434231/8053606
E-mail: collezione.design@triennale.it
E-mail: achillecastiglioni@triennale.it
The Castiglioni studio becomes a museum

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- 28 October 2005
