La Triennale di Milano

La Triennale di Milano, in partnership with the Design Archives of Venice’s IUAV University and with Molteni&C, Dada and Unifor, pays tribute to Luca Meda, an example of the perfect symbiosis between creativity and business, between art and industry, the creator of numerous products that have distinguished the history of Gruppo Molteni. Almost a paradox for a designer who used his pencil more than any other tool to describe and reinvent reality. Drawings, designs, models, catalogues, photographs and objects on show to describe the multi-faceted talents of a figure who had a profound influence on the history of design and architecture between the 1960s and 1990s.
The exhibition, curated by Nicola Braghieri, Rosa Chiesa, Serena Maffioletti and Sofia Meda and mounted by Chiara Meda and Nicola Gallizia, is indebted to the generous contribution of Swiss graphic designer Felix Humm, who partnered Luca Meda for many years in creating Molteni&C e Dada’s corporate image.
Molteni&C, Dada and Unifor have contributed to the exhibition with designs, iconographic material and furnishings that have marked the company’s history, some still in production, underlining the modernity of Luca Meda’s designs.
Since 2012 the Luca Meda fund has been deposited at the Design Archives of the IUAV University in Venice.

Photos by Andrea Balossi Restelli