“Design the Italian excellence” is the concept of the in-progress exhibition curated by Vincenzo Basile (Basile Arteco), specially planned for the Baglioni Hotels Group, in the renovated venue of the Nuovo Caffè Baglioni inside the Carlton Hotel Baglioni in Milan.

Twelve wooden glass-cases will become the stage for temporary exhibitions of unique objects characterised by projectual research, esperimentation and precious and rare realizations of Design.

The new Rinascimento, un nuovo Rinascimento: the exhibition’s upgraded edition has been specially designed on the occasion of Milan’s Design Week. A selection of authors representing the contemporary “fare italiano” is hosted, a mix of Innovation and Tradition including different generations and new ideas, Design, as well as Contemporary Art and Graphics, with an eye towards Italian collaborations in foreign countries. As it always happens, Art becomes bearer of a vision on contemporaneity that anticipates the changes in society and suggests a possible direction. New generations of designers, graphics, artists, entrepreneurs, researchers work in continuity and memory of what was developed by the Masters, with a new approach and a new idea of research. Italy is not at a standstill, actually it is a thriving country, eager to start a concrete change in society, and in the ordinary people’s life.

Two Maestros of the XXth century, great and contemporary Achille Castiglioni, and Enzo Mari, one who has always been skilled at designing, even only using words, hosted here with a piece of writing - a project - passion and utopia, are exhibited with Contemporary Masters. Alberto Meda exhibits “Lightness” - a project in 3D evoking gentleness and ethics - and “Solar bottle”, an object that makes you think of Design as a means to improve the quality of life of a great number of people, exhibited at New York’s MOMA in the exhibition “Design and the elastic mind” since 2008 it has been part of the permanent collection of the Museum.

Works by Paolo Ulian, Marta Laudani & Marco Romanelli, Giulio Iacchetti are presented alongside other names of the new generation of Designers, such as the Collective group of the project “Breaking the Mould”, realized in glass in Salviati’s historic furnace in Murano, and Giorgio Bonaguro, here with a fascinating four-hand project designed with Brazilian designer Zanini de Zanine in which they use the Internet, and the craftmanship of their countries - Italy and Brazil - in order to build a bridge between two different cultures.

Design, Graphics, Art, a welcome to International collaborations with foreign Designers, bringing with them projects of different cultural contaminations and identities.