“I would like my objects to be like messages in bottles, launched with the hope that someone will find them”, Paolo Ulian told Domus a couple of years ago. Originally from Tuscany, born in 1961, he is one of the most interesting of a generation of designers that includes Morrison, Grcic, the Bouroullecs, Newson and the Campanas. Animated by a strong ethical and social spirit that has lead him towards recycling and salvaging leftover materials, a great curiosity about human behaviour and a wry sense of humour, his design is the subject of an exhibition organised by Careof and Viafarini, that covers twenty years of work. As curator Beppe Finessi points out, it is “limpid work, evidently original, always recognisable, often stunning, with results that lie a long way off from any previous or contemporary episode”.

22.4 – 2.5.2009
Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4