The exhibition design exalts the “total living” concept conceived by artists and designers Fredrikson Stallard, who have worked with Driade before, present this new countenance – “rooted in a momentous past but looking to the future.”

Concrete, gold and cascading water are the elements chosen to express the new Driade direction and there is even a new design by Alessandro Mendini. Back working with Driade, he has created Piccoli Palazzi, a storage system in different heights and with a lacquered surface that conjures up a cityscape made of domes, roofs and a mixed skyline - like a painting that narrates the environment outside.

A yellow back, a white shelf and a red inner edge all feature handmade decorations and soft or geometrical forms. Piccoli Palazzi is like an inviting door, a mysterious alcove or an outsize Pop creation.

Easy to personalise, thanks to its extreme modularity, the pieces form large wall units or stand in the middle of the room, filling the air with vitality in a successful alternation of colours that is the distinctive trait of a Mendini design.