The exhibition “100 Years of Magistretti” consists of sketches, drawings, plans and photos documenting the intensive work of architect and city planner Vico Magistretti. It was organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis, as part of the initiatives marking Italian Design Day 2022.
The exhibition is introduced by a video-presentation by Margherita Pellino, from the Vico Magistretti Foundation. It covers the architect’s 60-year career, encompassing his best known projects and those less familiar, the architecture of Milan and elsewhere, and objects that have entered thousands of homes in Italy and throughout the world. Magistretti’s two indissolubly linked “passions” – architecture and design – are highlighted in this show, with sketches and catalogues featuring products that have become icons of Italian design.
In the margins of the exhibition the Cultural Institute also presented a new video of an interview with Khaled Ben Romdhane, a Tunisian architect. He is the owner of KBR, Tunisia’s most important importer of Italian design brands, which provided a number of iconic interior design objects for the event. Italian Design Day was opened this year by Ambassador Lorenzo Fanara, who underscored the value of the “Made in Italy” brand as a powerful country promotion tool. The Day was also an opportunity to announce the “3CO-Design – 3R/ Reuse, Recycle, Reduce” exhibition, which the Cultural Institute will be staging in June at the Cité des Sciences in Tunis.