Furniture Series, Chicago/Brussels 2017
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On 1 November 1964 the first Italian subway line opens in Milan. The new infrastructure brings a new idea of urban modernity in a city ready to embrace it. The design of the stations of Albini, Helg and Noorda is the new carrier of an exceptional identity. As an act of appropriation, Metrò furniture reinterpret the Milanese subway. Each component of the original design is ideally removed from its context and transformed into a one-material object, thus recreating a new domestic landscape.


A project for Maniera, realised in occasion of the Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017 / Project team: Ambra Fabi, Giovanni Piovene, Carlotta Capobianco, Laura Soldati, Francesca Villa / Construction: Mariotti Fulget / in collaboration with: Fondazione Albini, Metroricerche blog / Photographs: Giovanna Silva

Metrò

Metrò

Index

2016
Prototype House

Competition Costruire il Nuovo Millennio, 2018
Winning Proposal

2018
Half Circus

Temporary Pavilion, Bozar, Brussels 2018

2013
Vigorelli Velodrome

Competition Velodromo Maspes-Vigorelli, Milan 2013
Shortlisted proposal

2017
Metrò

Furniture Series, Chicago/Brussels 2017

About

Piovenefabi is a milanese architectural office founded in 2013 by Ambra Fabi and Giovanni Piovene. Since then the office work has developed through research and physical projects, in the fields of architecture, urban visions and design.

Ambra Fabi studied in Mendrisio and Paris Belleville. She worked at Architeckturbüro Peter Zumthor und Partner and then as a freelance architect in Milan. She has been teaching assistant in Mendrisio (CH) and professor at IED Cagliari and KU Leuven Sint Lucas Brussels. She is currently teaching at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Marne-la-Vallée Paris Est.

Giovanni Piovene studied in Venice and Paris Belleville. He co-founded the office Salottobuono and San Rocco magazine. He has been teaching assistant in Mendrisio and EPFL and professor at ISIA Urbino. He is currently teaching at École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Marne-la-Vallée Paris Est.

Contact

Corso Indipendenza 14,
I-20129 Milano
T +39 02 36584547
piovenefabi@piovenefabi.it

Place de la Justice 27/28,
B-1000 Brussels

News

17.04.18
MDW.3 Maniera

Our furniture pieces realized for Chicago Architecture Biennale 2017 will be produced by Maniera and presented for the first time in Milan, during the Design Week. Maniera 14 & 17: Productora / Columbus Table + Piovenefabi / Metrò. ALCOVA, 17 – 22 April 2018, 11 am – 7 pm.
Photographs by Giovanna Silva.

MDW.3 Maniera
17.04.18
MDW.2 Nanban

We have designed the Nanban temporary store for the Milano Design Week 2018. The project synthesizes the symbolic icon of all Japanese cities: the kiosk. Alcova, Via Popoli Uniti 11/13, April 17-22 2018.

MDW.2 Nanban
17.04.18
MDW.1 Mariotti Fulget

In the frame of the Milano Design Week 2018 we will present Comodo, a small table designed and produced for Silipol Studies n.3, a project by Mariotti Fulget. Opening: Tuesday April 17, Via Pietro Maroncelli 14, 7–11PM

MDW.1 Mariotti Fulget
13.04.18
Icon Design

Piovenefabi has been featured among the 100 talents of 2018 in the design world on Icon Design, March Issue 2018.

Icon Design
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