Fondazione Vico Magistretti takes part in the exhibit Prototypes with two prototypes of Magistretti’s project: the chairs Selene and Gaudì. The show is held at at the Sala delle Colonne in the Fabbrica del Vapore and it is organised by My Prototype and curated by Roberta Brambilla e Pietro Nocita.

The Prototypes exhibition aims, through a description of each prototype, to offer stimuli, reflections and accounts of the designer’s modus operandi in a non-historical and non-chronological layout, both in relation to craftsmen and modellers and, above all, to the fortunate and unfortunate accidents of life. Focussing attention on the prototype offers the opportunity to learn about creative and production processes, intuitions and practices that reveal how ability, happenstance and sometimes even mistakes can lead to extraordinary and curious results.

Prototypes involves designers, businesses, company museums and foundations with the objective of describing the human and creative process leading from idea to prototype and, in some cases, to the serial production of “legendary” objects.