Less is more or More is more? "Oggetti e Progetti", the exhibition that was inaugurated in May 2010 at the Die Neue Sammlung museum in Munich, has travelled to the US where it opened last November at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a new title: "Ethical and Radical". The title alludes to the two extremes between which we plan to direct our research in this new decade that has just begun. On one hand, as we here at Alessi understand it, "ethical" is the search for a new simplicity, modesty, and sometimes even austerity, in design. On the other, "radical" is understood as a continuation, perhaps even an acceleration, of the search for highly expressive forms and decorative elements that, at least from a certain point of view, might be considered a bit 'over the top', as the saying goes. This latest series of projects is a good example of the duality we nurture here, and it seems reasonable to me to assume that these will remain the two most interesting trends in the current decade. The new projects with a "radical" imprint: Wanders, Mendini, Rashid, Clotet, Trimarchi (La Stanza dello Scirocco), Manferdini, Fuksas, Gooris, Chiave, Kontouris and Dror. And those marked by "ethics": Fukasawa, Chipperfield, Lissoni, Gasparini, Lassus and Trimarchi (the Cross). Taken all together, they can certainly be read according to this dichotomy in an attempt to categorise them for the international design scene. But they also represent something more, and in the diversity of their ...
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