Breakfast with Architecture

Served on Mario Bellini's furnitures.

The project

The project is composed by a set of pieces of furniture realised by the worldwide famous Italian architect Mario Bellini. I had the idea for the project when I first saw the piece of furniture called "Silver Coffee Service", on which I've decided to build around all the rest of the project. So I chose the other pieces, in order to build a sort of modern breakfast/tea ambient, based on renowned productions of the architect. In the specific, the project consists of four parts:
- a set of chairs
- a lamp
- a table
- a cooffee service

For the creation of each object, i first decided to decompose it in subparts, more or less important.
This has allowed me to model first the main ones (for complexity or high repetition in the object), then the secondary parts and finally the complete structuring of all of them.

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The architect: life and works

Mario Bellini was born in 1935 and graduated in 1959 at the Politecnico di Milano. He lives and works in Milan. His activities range from architecture and urban design to furniture and industrial design. His fame as a designer dates from 1963. He is internationally renowned as an architect and designer, and is winner among others of 8 Compasso d’Oro and prestigious architecture awards including the Medaglia d’Oro conferred on him by the President of the Italian Republic. In 2011 he received the “Ambrogino d’oro” conferred on the most prestigious citizens of the Municipality of Milan. He has given talks in the greatest centres of culture in the world and was editor of Domus. His work can be found in the Collections of major Art Museums. MoMA in New York, which dedicated a personal exhibition to him, has 25 works of his in its Permanent Design Collection. He has had countless exhibitions in his name in Italy and abroad. From the 1980s onwards, he has designed projects such as the Portello Trade Fair quarter in Milan; the Exhibition Centre in Villa Erba on Lake Como; the Tokyo Design Center in Japan; Natuzzi America Headquarters in the USA; the Trade Fair in Essen in Germany; the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne; the Headquarter of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt; the new Verona Forum complex; the museum of the History of Bologna; the new Department of Islamic Art in the Louvre in Paris (second contemporary architecture project after the 'pyramid' by Pei). Projects getting under way at present include the new Cultural Centre in Turin, the only example of its kind of a public library in Italy.
Under construction at the moment:
- in Genoa, the Science and Technology Park
- in Milan, the new Milan Convention Center at the Milan Trade Fair (Portello) which will become the largest in Europe
- just started the renovation of Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan.
Sources: www.bellini.it