Roberto Sambonet is best known for an elegant fish-kettle for the table, designed in 1957 for the family company.

However beautiful and exemplary, it can only reveal a very small part of the designer’s character. By working in the family business, Sambonet was wise enough not to disdain the possibilities derived from his birth. But he also left for Brazil in 1948 and united much of his artistic fate with this country. The first section of the exhibition showing at Palazzo Madama in Turin until July 6 is in fact dedicated to the artist’s travels, in an attempt to reveal his wide-ranging interests, including a study of psychiatric patients’ faces. The second section is dedicated to the numerous portraits made in ink, while the last two parts deal with the design and production of objects. The event, curated by Enrico Morteo, promises to be one of the most interesting in the Torino World Design Capital programme. Silvia Monaco

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