Produced on the occasion of the 23rd International Exhibition ‘Unknown Unknowns. An Introduction to Mysteries” and conceived by Marco Sammicheli, curator of the Museum of Italian Design at the Triennale Milano, the exhibition “The Tradition of the New” tells the story of how Italian design has always had a attempting and experimental approach, tackling the not yet known through research. It does so through artworks, products, installations, documents, and creative processes that contributed to the development of society by touching on sociological, commercial, ecological, technological and cultural aspects between 1964 and 1996.

Fantini is present at the exhibition with I Balocchi, the series of colourful taps designed by Davide Mercatali and Paolo Pedrizzetti, which revolutionised the bathroom world at the end of the 1970s with its pop, almost cartoonish shapes and bright colours. With an immediate media and commercial success, I Balocchi became over time the company’s icon recognised worldwide.

 

The exhibition itinerary of the exhibition, designed by Zaven, offers visitors some of the most significant research in Italian design and invites them to go deeper  into them with distinct paths that follow a temporal development – from the 13th Triennale Tempo Libero of 1964 to the 19th Triennale Identity and Differences of 1996 – and a thematic one that is articulated in an archipelago of words phenomena, actions – Gravity, Human Containers, Environments, ’80s Movements, ’90s Playground, Synaesthesia and Music – and authors who have fostered unexpected events, doubts, answers, and technical achievements, such as Liisi Beckmann, Claudio Salocchi, Roberto Sambonet, Exhibition Design Group, Fiorucci Dxing, Alberto Meda, Clino Trini Castelli.

At the Triennale Milano, Viale Alemagna, from 15 July to 11 December 2022.