The key points
- Young visitors and design schools
- The work of the set designers and workers at the Piccolo
- The blue velvet, the throne, the brass pipes
In the first days of the Salone there were no endless Uffizi-style queues. But access to the Fair was limited to operators only, people with diaries full of business appointments and quick feet. Looking forward to visiting “Interiors by David Lynch. A Thinking Room”, the installation by the master of the cinema of the unconscious curated by Antonio Monda, was attended by young designers and school students. But from Saturday, when the turnstiles will be open to the general public, expect a bit of a queue to visit one of the most original installations seen at the Salone del Mobile in recent years. It’s worth it.
Access is just beyond Halls 5 and 7. The visiting area is mirrored. They are two identical structures conceived precisely to double the access possibilities and the symbolic entrance doors to the Salone del Mobile, as conceived by Lombardini 22, the studio that designed the layout of the Fair. The external structure, red curtain damask, is almost an introduction to the walkway designed by Andrea Barbato and Paolo Di Benedetto of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan which leads to the heart of the installation.
You pull the curtain and you find yourself in a path where there are a dozen 56-inch screens, like a large home television, on which the images of Lynch’s films scroll. You can see how the director uses sets and furniture in his films. Enthusiasts can play and recognize them. «The scenography, the furniture», says Monda, «in Lynch have an autonomous life, they are not just a background, an object. They have a defined personality.” Probably due to the relationship that Lynch himself has with wood and, consequently, furniture. «When I met him to talk to him about the project», says Monda, «he welcomed me to his house in a sort of carpentry shop. He was busy actually working on pieces of wood. He planed, he modeled.”
From the walkway you reach the heart of the installation, the Thinking Room. Out of blue velvet (as if to echo the title of Lynch’s most iconic film). Inside is a wooden throne topped with steel tubes. A place designed to go with your thoughts, to make them travel.
The furniture was designed by the director and created by the Piccolo’s workers. «It is a place that puts the visitor in a completely different dimension. You enter another place,” says Monda. «Like the protagonist of “Lost Highway”, Bill Pullman, who enters an impossible, absurd, absolute darkness. A place that doesn’t exist”, explains the curator. Fuori Il Salone. The operators who rush between the stands looking for business. Weekend visitors who will have more time to go into Lynch’s room and think.
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2024-04-20 05:57:09