CLOSE COLLABORATION 1991 - 2017
Andrea Branzi (30th November 1938 - 9th October 2023) architect and designer, born in Florence, where he graduated in 1966, lived and worked in Milan since 1973.
From 1964 to 1974 he was a member of the group Archizoom Associati, the first group of internationally known avant-garde, whose projects are now preserved at the Study Center and Archives of Communication, University of Parma; his dissertation and several projects are kept at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
In 2018 the Royal Academy of Fine Arts has awarded Rolf Schock Prize of Visual Arts to him. Co-founder of Domus Academy, the first international school graduate design.
Author of several books on the history and theory of design, has curated numerous exhibitions of this sector in Italy and abroad.
In 1994 he received the Compasso d'Oro for his career.
1991
Andrea Branzi _ Amnesie
A. Branzi: "The title of this exhibition means we can't trust our memories, but we can't rely on total forgetfulness either. The furniture is nearly architecture, invading space like segments of a wider
urban landscape. Objects that can be entered, practicable spaces, micro environments. And like architecture, this furniture is often cold and hard on the outside, but lacquered and velvety within. Resting on these prisms are aluminium and wood vases that give an impression of vibrant rotation-as if they were somehow almost transparent, like ectoplasms or clusters of crazy molecules."
1997
Andrea Branzi _ Silver & Wood
Courtesy Casa Argentaurum and Studio Andrea Branzi
Silver & Wood series in which the elements of the traditional tea service are translated into linear forms with intersections of branches and plant fragments. It is again the purity of the silver weavings of baskets and containers that evoke archaic and symbolic forms, with references to Shaker culture.
