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Con il patrocinio di Milano Capitale del Design® 2007 (17 - 23 aprile) CASTELLO SFORZESCO 17 aprile - 1 maggio Attività Produttive Cortile della Rocchetta e Corte Ducale INSTALLAZIONI INSTALLATIONS • TERRA DECODE ELEMENTS, 11 installations at Castello Sforzesco, in the Cortile della 4 punti cardinali all’architettura di/by ETTORE SOTTSASS Rocchetta and the Corte Ducale, presented by INTERNI from 17 April to 1 May. con/with Boffi • ACQUA For the centennial of the founding of the publishing house (in 1907), and for the Beside the eclisse di/by DORIANA e/and FuoriSalone® 2007, the Mondadori publishing group, with INTERNI, produces MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS a major event for Design Week in Milan (17-23 April), entitled DECODE ELEMENTS, con/with Ranger on Design and the theme of Reading. • ARIA Welcome glassblock on air di/by FRANCESCO e/and The Mondadori publishing group, an international leader in the fields of culture and information, ALESSANDRO MENDINI has constantly been a force for progress throughout its history con/with Seves glassblock , playing an important role in the transformation of lifestyle and the evolution of knowledge, through various • FUOCO L’architettura astratta, ripetitiva, sectors of publishing and communication. standard, globalizzante è legna da ardere? di/by GAETANO PESCE con/with Meritalia INTERNI offers the international Design public that gathers in Milan for the FuoriSalone® 100 Flames for reading a special event, DECODE ELEMENTS, displaying the creative processes of a series of di/by ODILE DECQ Italian and international designers, in works characterized by a highly experimental, con/with Kerakoll Design multimedia approach, capable of transmitting design culture and expression to the “city at • LEGNO large”, with all the ferment of ideas and creativity found in today’s world of design. Sssht! di/by MICHELE DE LUCCHI con/with Listone Giordano READING e/and Intesa Sanpaolo The designers have been invited to focus on the theme of , in terms of FUNDAMENTAL ELEMENTS: Earth, Water, Air, Fire, Wood, Metal, Light. Cidori di/by KENGO KUMA con/with Bals Tokyo e/and Motorola Inside Castello Sforzesco there are also 9 reading islands, veritable “urban salons” where it will be possible to enjoy moments of relaxation between one event and the next. • METALLO Water in the Southern Hemisphere di/by RON ARAD Press conference: Tuesday 17 April 2007 at 14.30 con/with S.Pellegrino Palazzo Marino, Sala Alessi. Piazza della Scala, 2 Le cocon doré di/by DOMINIQUE PERRAULT ARCHITECTURE Urban Party: Wednesday 18 April 2007 at 20.00 con/with GKD Cortile della Rocchetta, Corte Ducale, Piazza del Cannone • LUCE I wonder, wonder, wonder... di/by INGO MAURER Press room: Cortile della Rocchetta, Castello Sforzesco Light tracks Meeting Point: Spazio CityLife, Piazza Cordusio 2 di/by CASTAGNA RAVELLI Studio con/with The Fake Factory HARDWARE+SOFTWARE=ASINI di/by OLIVIERO TOSCANI con/with Festival Sete Sóis Sete Luas e/and La Sterpaia PRESS ROOM Cortile della Rocchetta con/with Nolostand, Alias, Cassina e/and Flos MEETING POINT Spazio CityLife P.zza Cordusio 2 di/by SIMONE MICHELI con/with Iris Ceramica, Hewlett-Packard e/and my5 Power Plate Via Trentacoste 7 20134 Milano tel 02 21 56 3-319/237/320 Co-producers [email protected] 1 Con il patrocinio di Milano Capitale del Design® 2007 (17 - 23 aprile) CASTELLO SFORZESCO 17 aprile - 1 maggio Attività Produttive Cortile della Rocchetta e Corte Ducale INSTALLAZIONI INSTALLATIONS • TERRA DECODE ELEMENTS 4 punti cardinali all’architettura di/by ETTORE SOTTSASS con/with Boffi In the history of ancient philosophy the Elements were those substances considered • ACQUA ‘simple’, from which all the things in the universe were thought to be composed. Beside the eclisse di/by DORIANA e/and The Pre-Socratic philosophers of the Ionian school identified the Elements as water, air, MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS earth and fire. Empedocles (492-432 BC) made reference to the four fundamental con/with Ranger elements as the root of all things; natural elements assumed to be immutable and • ARIA eternal, mixed and separated by the two cosmic forces of Hate and Love. The theory is Welcome glassblock on air di/by FRANCESCO e/and developed by Plato in the Timaeus, where the elements are placed in symbolic relation to ALESSANDRO MENDINI con/with Seves glassblock geometric solids: “To earth, then, let us assign the cubical form; for earth is the most immoveable of the four […] and to water we assign that one of the remaining forms which • FUOCO L’architettura astratta, ripetitiva, is the least moveable (icosahedron); and the most moveable of them to fire (tetrahedron); standard, globalizzante è legna da ardere? and to air that which is intermediate (octahedron). Also we assign the smallest body to fire, di/by GAETANO PESCE con/with Meritalia and the greatest to water, and the intermediate in size to air; and, again, the acutest body 100 Flames for reading to fire, and the next in acuteness to air, and the third to water.” (Timaeus 55-56). While the di/by ODILE DECQ dodecahedron, as a complex, complete form, symbolizes the whole of the cosmos. con/with Kerakoll Design Aristotle adds a fifth element, aether, which became one of the mainstays of ancient • LEGNO physics. Philistion of Locri (4th c. BC) would transform the Elements into powers or Sssht! di/by MICHELE DE LUCCHI primary qualities, whose pairs of opposites (dry-wet and hot-cold) become the con/with Listone Giordano e/and Intesa Sanpaolo universal coordinates of all material, organic and inorganic substances, in infinite compositions. Cidori di/by KENGO KUMA But the Elements are not just the fundamental components of the physical world and the con/with Bals Tokyo orientation in e/and Motorola principles governing the order of the cosmos; they are also the symbols of space and time, and for this reason the word “element” is often placed in • METALLO Water in the Southern Hemisphere relation to the cardinal points and the colors. While this was the worldview of di/by RON ARAD occidental philosophy, in ancient China, regulated by the two fundamental principles of con/with S.Pellegrino yin and yang, the Elements also referred to the five regions of heaven: in this case, they Le cocon doré di/by DOMINIQUE PERRAULT are water, wood, fire, earth and metal, while air is not considered an element. ARCHITECTURE con/with GKD This complex of cultural traditions and ways of interpreting the world around us forms the • LUCE background for the event DECODE ELEMENTS, offering reflections on this theme in I wonder, wonder, wonder... di/by INGO MAURER constructed form, brining the positive message of contemporary design to the widest Light tracks possible audience. di/by CASTAGNA RAVELLI Studio con/with The Fake Factory In keeping with the tradition of the four Elements in occidental classical philosophy, HARDWARE+SOFTWARE=ASINI combined with attention to the traditions of the di/by OLIVIERO TOSCANI a key of interpretation of the world, con/with Festival Sete Sóis Sete Luas Far East, DECODE ELEMENTS focuses design on the pragmatic and symbolic value of the e/and La Sterpaia elements that surround us, from antiquity to the present, and projected toward the future. PRESS ROOM Cortile della Rocchetta con/with Nolostand, Alongside the philosophical and cultural aspects of the event, DECODE ELEMENTS Alias, Cassina e/and Flos celebrates the centennial of the Mondadori publishing group, metaphorically MEETING POINT introducing the “element” of reading, in specially prepared spaces, as an Spazio CityLife P.zza Cordusio 2 di/by SIMONE MICHELI indispensable tool of knowledge, to understand and improve the world in which we live. con/with Iris Ceramica, Hewlett-Packard e/and my5 Power Plate Matteo Vercelloni Via Trentacoste 7 20134 Milano tel 02 21 56 3-319/237/320 Co-producers [email protected] 2 Con il patrocinio di Milano Capitale del Design® 2007 (17 - 23 aprile) CASTELLO SFORZESCO 17 aprile - 1 maggio Attività Produttive Cortile della Rocchetta e Corte Ducale INSTALLAZIONI INSTALLATIONS • TERRA 1907-2007 4 punti cardinali all’architettura di/by ETTORE SOTTSASS MONDADORI 100 YEARS con/with Boffi • ACQUA “I was offered the chance to be a typesetter’s apprentice in an old, antiquated print shop in Beside the eclisse di/by DORIANA e/and Ostiglia. And that’s where the great adventure began.” MASSIMILIANO FUKSAS con/with Ranger “The great adventure” of Arnoldo Mondadori dates back to 1907, one hundred years ago, • ARIA with the publication of the periodical “Luce”, and still continues today. Across an entire century Welcome glassblock on air di/by FRANCESCO e/and the growth of the publishing house has coincided with the renewal and development of Italian ALESSANDRO MENDINI “La lampada” con/with Seves glassblock society. From the very first series of books, , created in 1911 to spread the love of literature among young people in Italy in the early part of the century, through the Italian • FUOCO L’architettura astratta, ripetitiva, Classics, the Contemporary Italian Classics, the Medusa series and Lo Specchio, milestones standard, globalizzante è legna da ardere? of 20th-century culture, all the way to the innovative ideas of gradually launching major illustrated di/by GAETANO PESCE con/with Meritalia magazines, the first Italian book club, the first news magazine and the first economical paperbacks, 100 Flames for reading Mondadori has continued in its role as the publishing house of “all” Italians, while constantly di/by ODILE DECQ expanding the popularity of books and reading in our country. con/with Kerakoll Design • LEGNO Today the Mondadori Group, with over fifty controlled and affiliate companies, Sssht! di/by MICHELE DE LUCCHI is one of the largest international corporations in the field of publishing, with activities con/with Listone Giordano books periodicals advertising direct e/and Intesa Sanpaolo ranging from the creation and printing of and to , marketing, retailing, radio and web initiatives.