MILAN — The B&B Italia Camaleonda couch by Mario Bellini and the Flos Viscontea pendant lamp by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni are amongst design icons conserving nationwide athletes and their coaches firm through the Summer time Olympics in Paris.
In the course of the 2024 Paris Olympic Video games, which kicked off Friday and can shut Aug. 11, Group Italy and particular company will likely be hosted at Casa Italia Paris within the Le Pré Catalan. The Napoleon III-style constructing is immersed within the verdant expanse of town’s largest park, the Bois de Boulogne, Italian Olympic Committee CONI stated on its web site. On Friday, Italy’s president minimize the ribbon on the venue, strolling distance from the Champs Élysées. Brimming with historic significance, the constructing was inaugurated in 1856 and in 1894 hosted a dinner that feted the beginning of the Olympic Video games of the fashionable period.
CONI stated the primary Casa Italia venture was unveiled on the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984. This yr’s venture is known as “Ensemble.”
“Casa Italia will deliver the worth of Ensemble by artwork, structure, design, hospitality and have a good time its athletes in a context the place every component will be capable of inform how the utopia of brotherhood turns into a tangible actuality exactly because of the Olympics,” the group stated.
In an announcement, luxurious design agency B&B Italia, which is a part of the galaxy of Flos B&B Italia Group, previously Design Holding, stated it and fellow lighting model Flos contributed to an emotional and comfy environment with its most recognizable merchandise.
“The 2 manufacturers come collectively in a shared, harmonious venture that goals to have a good time the creative and cultural excellence of Italian design,” B&B Italia stated Friday.
Inside Casa Italia Paris.
Pietro Savorelli for Coni
In accordance with the organizers of Italy’s largest design commerce present Salone del Cell, Casa Italia Paris 2024 hosts the works of 19 main artists consultant of Italian up to date artwork in addition to design works by 32 internationally famend designers alive and deceased, created for 11 Italian firms. They embody Humberto Campana for furnishings maker Edra; Mario Bellini, Piero Lissoni, Milan-based Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola and Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka for high-quality glass furnishings, doorways and partitions maker Glas Italia; designer Brodie Neill for Riva 1920; late Italian designer Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova, and Finnish designer Antti Kotilainen for Arper.
In a broadcast printed on nationwide Italian information platform ANSA, Mattarella was accompanied by his daughter Laura, Italy’s ambassador to Paris, Emanuela D’Alessandro, CONI President Giovanni Malagò and CONI secretary normal and Italian mission chief for the 2024 Video games, Carlo Mornati.
“This Casa Italia reveals how our nation takes half with conviction within the Olympic Video games and what Italian genius is,” the president stated.
