THE NEW MAXXI DESIGN COLLECTION

MAXXI, the National Museum of 21st Centurt Arts in Rome, Italy, launches its Design Collection, with an international preview at Alcova MIAMI. The vision behind this new Design Collection will be presented by Lorenza Baroncelli, Director of MAXXI’s Architecture Department during a talk with Joseph Grima, cofounder of Alcova, together with Eleni Petaloti (Objects of Common Interest), Kostas Lambridis and Stefano Fusani, all of whose work has been recently acquired by the Museum (5 December 2023 at 5 PM, 770 Biscayne Boulevard, Miami FL).

MAXXI is the first National museum in Italy dedicated to contemporary creativity.
Designed by Zaha Hadid, it is a great architectural work conceived as a modern roman forum: it produces and hosts exhibitions of art, architecture, design and photography, as well as lectures and talks with artists, architects and leading figures of our time.
Two souls coexist in it, as represented by the Art and the Architecture Departments. In 2023, with the appointment of Lorenza Baroncelli as Director of MAXXI Architettura, MAXXI has started a more structured reflection on design, both historical and contemporary.  This aims to devise specific exhibition projects dedicated to past masters and at the same time establish a Design Collection which reflects contemporary design. The concept behind the new MAXXI Design Collection is a deep reflection on what design has become today. The Collection will be as diversified as the fields in which the discipline expresses itself: from industrial design to material research, from immaterial design to anonymous design, up to the more experimental collectible design, made up of unique pieces or limited editions that closely resemble the art world. The selection of authors and works will be guided by both a temporal factor, since only works produced before 2000 will be acquired, and a spatial factor, not intended as a geographical matter, but instead as a strong relationship with Italian culture, that will be favored.