they preceded me are men of the
future
I have always defined myself as a man of the
present precisely because I believe that
all my work does not fail
make huge steps forward for
each is who he must accept
I very often take steps
I mean I try to see looking for
see things
we all see the newspaper so which
one simply speaks with a point of
absolutely personal view I take care of
of space
I went to architecture and I do
design because then it was a bit the
destiny of all those of mine
so when I look at this generation
table simply do I move
sideways becomes stuff is here is one
sort of magic act in the sense
the title that I proposed was the form
as a content no then I imagine myself
always one cylinder per cylinder of the
prestigiator the contents of the cylinder
and a white rabbit then the shape
content as contained in this sense
there is always a second reading a
second message this is an eighth
which renounces the four supporting legs
at least it is not that renunciation
bets exaggerate four are carriers
171 remaining are soft therefore also
a sort of game of prestige because
the outer perimeter line and all
soft so people remember me
when in 2001 we presented if
in the building he touched them and I thought that
I was just floating because
there were so many legs even if they were
soft but then I at the bottom of the project
these tables simply because then
they are theaters of stories that can
to happen this was the sketch with which
I presented the project and hats
that is for me
I was interested in what happens
under the table then every and every thing
vector not a form as content then
I mean we played a lot
with
in the meantime with the idea of piazza noli
of the square is the greatest idea
Italian architectural
I want to say this place an encounter
perhaps the largest export product
Italian architecture for me is reduced
in scale 1 to 250 and enters the living rooms
some people because we are a bit
forget the sense of the square but it is
simply this too is a game
of magic a simple pirouette a
lateral movement that serves to bring back
at the center of attention a theme like
that of the square
or I go to piazza gino valle a
milan where the buildings are made like this
they are drawn by gino valley itself to
which is dedicated to the square and to do
a building for the headquarters of the
milan team
I decide that this form must end
simply be a carrier of one
vector of a content
so these athletes run on the roof
of the ceiling impact with a ball
so that stuff there becomes a message
it was man motion emotion, however, exactly
also treat the surface of a
building not mine
like a canvas at the bottom it really is
always a side step this is a
architecture in the fantastic garden
bomarzo that has always struck me
that is, I look at my daily life
because then each one forgives if it is
choose the daily is not that if
necessarily from here to your home
always do the same between reproaches
lend different then this is mine
daily at the bottom of me and the bormio
daily I do the side step e
become this stuff here this is a
work I did for trent
the last three years the twenty-first in
bottom I did nothing else
people came in
in this mirrored igloo and he entered
inside my head
in fact, from those ears there were gods
great amplifiers from which they came out
words extracted from a book I have
written and is called design
explained to my mother so basically
an oxymoron because I assure you that it is not
you can explain the design to yours
mother absolutely can not
may the mother when I tried to
explain to him something my mother unfortunately
she died but when I tried to explain them
something she smiled and said fabio
what do you want to eat there is
it simply is not here then me
I try to explain it through the ears
of the of my head people enter
inside
tells a bit of history together with a
eight and a half words of fellini
I am very attracted to the faces of the gods
the faces of the masks at the bottom are are
our real business card no
we express ourselves with a lot of mimicry
facial
this is the typical mask of the theater
greek this mask was used to conceal the
real faces of the actors therefore anyway
to give it artificial connotations
but if there was also another use
absolutely interesting served for
amplify the voice
now there is this microphone that
vulgarly it is called ice cream even if
he does not lick
but think in the Greek theater they were huge
the open spaces so there was no need to
these gadgets that amplify almost
magically the voice there also the magic
you are very interested in this
this mask becomes a mask a
out of scale for our daily life
and here I am another thing there too
my daily life was one of them
readings of oscar wilde and beats me in
this phrase that struck me very much
all men lie but give him one
mask and they will tell the truth then
nemo serves to tell the truth and these
eyes to me know of truth I am
very fascinated by giving you bovi like
artist
we really lost a person there
he gave so much when so ma
asked a client to make a show room
of mosaic coverings in Berlin
thought about his trilogy of berlin them
he made three albums the two years 77 78 three
album and pc then put his big ones
eyes of two different colors in the window
of a mosaics showroom then you
always say this side shift
that is, the transfiguration of reality
look at reality with different eyes
simply different eyes in this
case with the eyes of the hnwi then for
I think this is an image that I took from
I’m interested in some morning
imagine two pillars these are
exactly 2 pillar they are
undefeated when I found myself doing
this place here that only dear Milan
done a good few years ago fifteen
twenty years ago I had these two pillars
but simply these pillars for me
they held up the building that was on it
this place
then they became these arms of
this god I was reading them too
the sacred text of the Egyptian dead was there
this god and until the sugar held the
heavenly time and then these two
pillars have immediately become
the arms of the god show and supported
the vault of this place in Milan
or I mean you come across mine
daily and also visit exhibitions a
artistic sea I love so much de
chirico then his squares of Italy ne
he did
hundreds of cassino no are obsessions
the arts are obsessed, they are gods
obsessive maniacs evidently to me
It becomes this stuff here live
relationship i look de chirico moves me
sideways I open my eyes a little
because then it is always this ability
of transfiguration boys the
design and transfiguration e
become this stuff here or I watch
Titian means this of 1538 was
beautiful now think of Titian thought
to all the artists at his time
they took these women almost always for
the majority of prostitutes from the street
that they had laid out on a triclinium
they painted them transformed into tea
because then all these paintings
they esteemed venus to the waters
the goddess seated then the deification
of the prostitute was the top
this is total power of
transfiguration exactly what
it happens with art no I have tried to
do it with this buried sofa here
interest was also made to overcome
the threshold of the artistic work
so to cross the barrier for me
that’s fundamental, that is, not thinking
that the work of art is other than itself
how much in some way to interact e
make her own cross the threshold
maybe that’s the only step forward
I like instead that lateral
cross the threshold of the work we go
come on
this
this I always speak point of view
heterosexual italian man then the
feminine is always in the eye and
however, in the desires of a man for me
has become this is my first
architecture thought there was the first one
first job in which these legs of
woman who is always a kind of goal
for any man they become the threshold
of a fashion store or
the newspaper can also be one
stylist like tommy hilfiger this one
advertising of his that he had asked
to make a special showcase for this
launch in Milan etc., etc.
in short, take advantage of it too
possibly to make a small pass of
criticism dc tommy hilfiger my dear up in
bottom you do nothing but propose
lifestyle will be people are none other than
of an imaginary assembly kit
like this then any step
you decide on any lateral point
view decided as a designer and ne
do what you want
I for example when I see this
machine here that people drive crazy
I am not at all passionate about
machines does not own a car for
me when they ask me to do those
a mustang but I like the name
mustang mass is a wild horse
then when they ask me to do it
same item for a product of
robin and houthi wooden toys
for children the mustang becomes a
real horse no, by the way, think about it
this little digression
and incredible that we still judge
the power of an engine in horsepower
that is, we are still so tied to
an old transport logic with
the equine animal to be transformed each
power any motor vehicle even of
a ferrari 500 horses from the bonnet a
I earn 500 horses so for me
when I see that car there for me
it is this transfiguration stuff here as well
or when I see this I mean
in our city we are used to
this kind of panorama for me this
panorama here becomes this other thing
this happened a few years ago
mayor of Milan asked me to solve
the problem that there was montenapoleone
lack of greenery and wild parking
simple mixi the two things you move
sideways the cars become the vessel
perfect replicated in fiberglass between
the other you make them pay for fiat because
he had to launch the 500 cabrio
so just the circle closes
you always have to close it as a designer
because basically what he was supposed to bring to
the result is home
look I do not know if you have heard e
read the thanksgiving speech of
bob dylan at the fifteen year old nobel prize
it’s not that he does things because he thinks
win
Nobel prize for literature 16 a bit
compared shakespeare and says second
you worried about how much it would be
liked the critics or how much it would be
arrived to posterity that yes
he worried about the stage has to do with it
the actress who has to play the role
the fake skull for Hamlet who is fake
ago and stain 3d if there had been that is
the problems are more contingent then
this make ends meet
this is true everyday life
it is the true job of the designer the
his move to the side and chose point of
view
let’s go forward or this me
I look at this among other things often happens
in the bad roads of ours
Italian and for me it becomes this stuff
here from another on one occasion
story telling why this is a
project i or whole or entitled green
line in honor of my visit to beirut
where a certain point you realize that in
this city
crazy was broken in two because
on the one hand there were the Catholics and
on the other, Muslim cyans, however
he shot from one side to the other barricade
you realize you are macy e catholics
Muslims
this road did not pass through it
plus nobody and in the asphalt mantle
so the plants started to grow
this this xvi to this road was
renamed the green line green line
some may even have boers who dream
for Milan, however, beautiful that a flower
that its force through the layer
of asphalt and regain dignity and its own
also to teach human beings
the often absolute nonsense or
I look at the alleys of Naples and comes to me
say I live in Milan where there are
roads more elegant and those le
streets of the quadrilateral of fashion
then as soon as I have the chance
Neapolitans Jun
milano this and via della spiga in the
specific this is an intervention done
for the illuminations of a few years ago
the commissioner calls series designers and
he gave me away from the ear and I decided
to replicate spaccanapoli in via della
ear with elements completely
made of bright diodes or I decide to
take the fetish object of mine
the designer’s youth to face it
with take and borrow one
character from the plato symposium can be
always the tona and a book in which
each from an interpretation
of love there is this playwright who
It is a certain point tells this story
it is the human being is a perfect being
very happy asexual and so happy that
it annoys the david and they complain
with zeus and to make it short zeus does it
all come in line these woes of
human beings and with rooms there
divide in half by forcing them to
then rediscover perfection
original simply for finding again
the complementarity of the masculine of the
feminine so I always have
the panton chair is considered perfect
I make zeus and break it in two often
in under and this is another
lateral displacement another point of
seeing the perfection at the bottom does not exist
we always search for her by chasing her
we are not always on the planet’s surface
a little we saw that they are looking for
or let’s look at this other one
each of us goes through phases of
settling evolutionary stages we say
this among other things in the sofa that me
remember many years in New York
I have always said when you are in New York
and the homeless, the homeless call them like
you want the homeless are the real masters
of the cities because these are
take possession of anything that for
road we basically do not consider it
public space with our own space
public space and where in case we launch
the paper on the ground is not there
we take care while they are the real masters
the city at the end we will have to learn
a lot from them
when I proposed this plan has
cappellini I said giulio this stuff
here is adaptation exactly
the adaptation to the versity of the
conditions to find comfort in
any breaking point
and that’s what allows us to go
forward no or this is another
sofa that I have always designed for
caps
think that I am a little adaptation that
I’ve designed this thing only here
this element here that does not stand up
and this is something that interests me
explaining it is like an “I” and an ” I”
he is not standing
I always say that even linguistically
the ego is not contained in us
if we then mirror ourselves, it is the umpteenth no
I at the umpteenth power so we have
sense only if so many people put themselves
together
so this sofa is nothing else
many modules put together that yes
they can unite to infinity and create a
sofa for us no to seat
anyone on the other is used now
very much in the airport halls
call and en of the conjunction you and me
and you among other things end up the contrary
also DNA in a kind of chain of
different genome for more generation
shared if you want or yours
daily life is not even made of
classic references to be if not to say
corbusier the famous bed of the
psychoanalysis sigmund freud and these are
rorschach stains
rorschach and they ‘ll show you these tests
and you must give interpretations of
these stains for me it becomes is not
I’ve been here so I’m self-analyzing stretch
interesting guys that you realize that
in the early twentieth century, late nineteenth century
early twentieth century Freud was very cool
of its historical period then that
stuff there that corbier the young le
corbusier draw the 28 is nothing else
what exactly daughter of that bed
so it’s interesting how the design a
some evidently affected by the influences
cultural trends we say why
Freud was the king at that time
psychoanalysis truly the discipline
queen there is a lot more printers
3d era was the nanotechnology of the moment
psychoanalysis
in short, this stuff becomes lapsus here
so I take the
Freud’s sofa found him with the
angry ripple shell and change all
Persian patterns of the freud carpet
with rorschach stains or
I take the American flag
simply just do not transfigure
simply a little half-close
eyes becomes this stuff here that one
showroom that I did in in times not
suspicions of bushism now would be
almost to replicate for tramp but in short
self-styling this by assembling the flag o
staying in the theme of flags like
milan a few years ago asked me to do
a pavilion for shanghai that
it represented the city then there
question on what the cross
red in the white field you notice that the
red cross was the nobility of
capobianco was the people and houses of the
nobility of a city today novelty and
creative nobility then you put us
take us some fountain cut
careful and flunk the fountain were not
Milanese therefore what is also there
form as content and right of land
and not blood you know by affirming with
a junta of the right that however the
symbol of the city and the red cross in
white field reinterpreted with
the excellence of Milan that are not
Milanese a little in spite of the league here
there is among other things a miuccia prada qua
there is the last Leonardo’s dinner that does not
it was Milanese malfa milano and here too
there this is from the manual of the
architects and the only historical thing from
find on the internet because now it is but
7 goods is practically disused in
prehistoric matter
the fact is that it is a bit of the approach to
however, this makes me come in
mind when this customer arrives
american vice fabio redo shops of
shoes and i do is stuff here because
basically it is simply to relate to
a shelf in space makes her mad
he opens his eyes and becomes this
this lattice is a bit of a fairytale
imaginary a little magical because I will have
I really like magic
look I did not believe so much and magic
a friend gave me a few years ago
a ticket to see david
copperfield
in my opinion I had forgotten why
then adulthood makes you forget one
series of things no then went there
says no stop or for social purposes the den
cetera or ma has placed in the front row at
his friend lucky enough this
at your distance david copperfield
he made me drop my jaw, that is e
na stuff be overwhelmed the magic is
beautiful and it’s as childlike as it is
so the eye is always approached
of the child that’s why I told you to
me in the cylinder is always the rabbit
White
let’s go on and look at a gesture like that
it becomes this thing here too there
this is these are years of
experimentation as always with this
project shows that it is a bag
this was a boys’ fair stand
a trade fair booth for a manufacturer
mosaics so everyone can tear up
interpretation each can do
become extraordinary everyday
everything
this is the least bought handle in
home when the house fact told me
that I want very simple the rod
italo et cetera
but then to sell it always under the
eyes I said boys but continuity
it does not satisfy me either simply or simply
removed matter and this matter has
originated a heart this because
small micro-story inside for me
it was the most difficult project he designs
the handle because I hate the doors myself
The doors are really disgusting
divisions or barriers I can not
support them then draw the handle
it was almost a contradiction in terms
evidently and here the title of this
handle as many times for any
opera explains love intentions so much
open store only love opens the
doors so it is not enough to challenge one
rod but you have to remove matter to
rod draw a heart and hold
a heart is here these are the covers
of two monographs made over the years
but also these passed
pure transfiguration here at that time me
liked to put my image in
cover then I simply said that
sense has
I see myself as I see myself that
I close my eyes I take a step
side I open my chest I find a flower
inside of me and I give it to the interlocutor
and this is perhaps the interpretation to which
I recognize myself more watch
to close I am not sure that
evolution is a step forward but
I am sure that evolution is a step
of dance
so enjoy it bye
[Applause]
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