Milan
Palazzo Litta

On the occasion of the 2022 Salone del Mobile, the Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship is delighted to present Doppia Firma for the sixth time. These dialogues between design and high craftsmanship are a project of the Fondazione Cologni dei Mestieri d’Arte developed in collaboration with Living, Il Corriere della Sera’s magazine of interiors, design and lifestyle.
Doppia Firma is a project that sets out to promote an alliance between the innovation of design and the tradition of Europe’s master craftsmen and women. The aim is to present a unique collection, made up of original works or small collections that are the fruit of a creative exchange between a designer/artist and an artisan, or a manufacturer of excellence: works that stem from a cross-fertilization between the culture of design and a know-how that is an authentic expression of its region of origin.

For the new edition of 2022 the promoting partners have conducted a painstaking search all over Europe to
find a series of works created in the spirit of Doppia Firma, which for some time now has set a benchmark both as method and as reference, becoming a format that is much appreciated at an international level and has inspired several a number of initiatives in which the roles of designer and artisan interact, working together on an equal footing and with equal credit as creators (whence the principle of the doppia firma or ‘double signature’).

This significant selection has in part been made possible by the invaluable contribution of the Michelangelo Foundation’s international network, made up of important European institutions that promote the crafts.

The dialogue between creativity and high-quality manufacturing, between culture of design, talent and great expertise, finds expression in this edition in a particularly wide-ranging and varied way. The spirit of research and experimentation characterises several of the projects presented, often born out of a collaboration between designers and important schools of applied arts.

For 2022 as well, the materials and techniques in which designers and artisans have combined their respective and exceptional skills to arrive at new interpretations of functional or decorative objects are numerous: glass, ceramics, porcelain, marble, wood, rattan and textiles. The artworks themselves, true narrative icons, are displayed in a sequence that winds its way through the magnificent rooms of Palazzo Litta, a spectacular baroque casket in the heart of the city and prestigious seat of the regional secretariat of the Ministry of Culture. The initiative falls within the ambit of the collaboration between Palazzo Litta and the Fondazione Cologni for the staging of an extensive programme of cultural events and joint exhibitions on the common theme of the arts and crafts.