From 6th to the 10th of October Como hosts an event in the most emblematic spots of its town , a moment to exhibit, think about and research around the topic History repeating in the field of design. The exhibition “History Repeating. Come i designer guardano alla storia”, curated by Marco Sammicheli and hosted in the historic rooms at Teatro Sociale foyer, is a collective exhibition dedicated to the role of history and sources where renowned pieces of international designers live together, among them Gatti, Paolini, Teodoro with the Sacco bean-bag by Zanotta and many other as Alvar Aalto, Chiara Andreatti, Andrea Branzi, Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Cristina Celestino, Marco Dessì, Francesco Faccin, Ferruccio Laviani, Ico Parisi, Pierre Paulin, Gio Ponti, Piero Portaluppi, Giulio Ridolfo, Gino Sarfatti, Riccardo Sarfatti, Valerio Sommella, Ettore Sottsass.
"The exhibition is a recognition of how much history is on the one hand a commercial and ideative lever and on the other, a dialectical rebound to innovation if it is not interpreted as a chase to read the present"
(cit. Marco Sammicheli)
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