9 April 2014
A place to love, a place to live in surrounded by the people we care about and who care about us. This is what home means to Bijoy Jain, founder and head of Studio Mumbai, one of the eight protagonists of the exhibition Dove vivono gli architetti (“Where Architects Live”), staged at Pavilion 9 of Fiera Milano Rho-Pero for the Salone del Mobile, the Milan Furniture Show. Curated by Francesca Molteni and Davide Pizzigoni, the exhibition looks at the most private places of some well-known architects, the ones who design the public spaces of our cities and the furniture that feeds the dreams of visitors to the great international shows: along with Bijoy Jain, Shigeru Ban, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Marcio Kogan and Daniel Libeskind. Each architect identifies his own ideal home though a favorite object, a detail, a particular light. For Mario Bellini this is a 9-meter-tall bookcase in his house in Milan. Daniel Libeskind proposes a table conceived in the Lombard capital, in an apartment on Via Benedetto Marcello, and taken with him on all his subsequent moves, including to his current home in New York. Bijoy Jain chooses a swimming pool and 23 dogs. And so on. Rather than on a reconstruction of the houses on a reduced scale, the exhibition focuses on the domestic atmosphere, offering the public an opportunity to “live” the daily lives of the architects, with their objects, their choices and their habits.
Massimiliano e Doriana Fuksas
Massimiliano e Doriana Fuksas
Bijoy Jain
Bijoy Jain
Bijoy Jain
Bijoy Jain
Bijoy Jain
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind
Daniel Libeskind
Zaha Hadid
Zaha Hadid
Mario Bellini
Mario Bellini
Mario Bellini
Marcio Kogan
