A still from the film “Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky” (dir. Jean Kunen, 2009).

In the Milan Palazzo Reale are exhibited serving-set design based on famous films. The theme is formulated as follows: “conviviality: the art of dinner between the past and the future.”

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A frame from the film “Vatel” (dir. Rolan Joffe, 2000).

Ten halls - ten stories. Sources of inspiration were films of different years, illustrating how the art of feasts changed over the centuries: from French kings to our contemporaries, as well as assumptions about the subject of meals in the distant future.

A still from the film Marie-Antoinette (dir. Sofia Coppola, 2006). A shot from the film "Emma" (dir. Douglas McGrath, 1996). A still from the film Death in Venice (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1971). A frame from the film "Leopard" (dir. Luchino Visconti, 1963). A shot from the film “The Great Gatsby” (dir. Baz Luhrmann, 2013). Shot from the movie "Single Man" (dir. Tom Ford, 2010). A shot from the movie "Out of the Car" (dir. Alex Garland, 2015).

Designer Alessandro La Spada, a regular contributor to Visionnaire, created for the Italian brand an installation in the spirit of the picture “I Am Love” using the Revenge table with marble mosaic top and Clem chairs with velvet upholstery. The love drama of the bourgeois family of Rekka was shot in the interiors of the famous Milan villa Necchi Campiglia, built and furnished according to the project of Piero Portaluppi in 1935.

A still from the film “I Am Love” (dir. Luca Guadagnino, 2010).

At that time, the project was innovative: the rooms were zoned with sliding partitions, elevators for products were hidden in the walls, the first private heated pool in the city and the first four-car garage were built here. In the early 1950s, after the war, the interior was updated by decorator Tomaso Buzzi, who added wood carved panels, tapestries and furniture of the 19th century.

Exposition Visionnaire at the exhibition Conviviando. Diz. Alessandro La Spada. Exposition Visionnaire at the exhibition Conviviando. Diz. Alessandro La Spada. Exposition Visionnaire at the exhibition Conviviando. Diz. Alessandro La Spada.

The exhibition will run until February 15, 2018.