Antonio Citterio, Kengo Kuma and Patricia Urquiola designed three limited edition vases for the “Disegna il Futuro” (Design the Future) charity initiative. The pieces, a total of 100, are part of the fundraising project created by Fondazione Ieo-Monzino to contribute to oncological and cardiovascular research, and conceived by Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, president of the foundation, and Francesco Bonami.
The artist’s vases have in common solidarity and an eye to the future. Those by Antonio Citterio, defined by the colours soy and cobalt blue, are independent but complementary, one concave, the other convex. “I like to think that these two vases can be used together, even one inside the other”, says the designer.

Patricia Urquiola’s vase is, as the designer explains, “an expression of a metamorphosis of being”. A glazed ceramic structure is complemented by post-moulding engravings with a constant rhythm: the design is the result of two distinct forms that “interpenetrate, integrate and complement each other”.
Several balanced and stacked circles characterise Kengo Kuma’s vase, inspired by the equilibrium between the different aspects of body and mind that make up health. “I tried to translate the philosophy of the Foundation and its emphasis on health into form,” explains Kengo Kuma.
- Project:
- Disegna il Futuro
- Conceived by:
- Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Francesco Bonami
- Realized by:
- Fondazione Ieo-Monzino
- Architects:
- Antonio Citterio, Kengo Kuma and Patricia Urquiola

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