MILAN — Fendi has the moment once again revealed its like for Rome.
The Italian luxurious residence has partnered with the French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici and with the support of the Mobilier Countrywide, a French nationwide provider agency under the supervision of the French Ministry of Society, to refurbish six reception salons at Villa Medici. The French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici is found on the Pincio hill, at the bottom of which there are the city’s world-well-known Spanish Actions.
Kim Jones, Fendi’s creative director of couture and womenswear, and Silvia Venturini Fendi, inventive director of extras and menswear, formulated the task, juxtaposing modern day structure and the venue’s heritage.
On Thursday evening, the designers, flanked by Delfina Delettrez Fendi, artistic director of jewelry, will host a dinner and a guide signing with an exhibition of images from “The Fendi Established.” The book, by Jones with pics by Nikolai von Bismarck, was released previously this 12 months and pays homage to the Rome-dependent couture dwelling and to the Bloomsbury Group. A selection of photographs in the tome were lensed at Villa Medici.
Villa Medici has a distinctive, layered architectural and ornamental identification, with influences courting again to the Renaissance, to Polish French artist Balthus in the ’60s and ’70s and to the designer and scenographer Richard Peduzzi in the early Aughts.
Drawing on these legacies, colour has grow to be the central component for the conservation and restoration task. The authentic tones of the wall paintings have been a setting up issue in deciding upon the palette for every single home, mirrored in specific in a few custom-built hand-knotted carpets entirely crafted from recycled French wool.
A variety of pieces by Italian designer Chiara Andreatti and by the French designers Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec and Toan Nguyen lead to a new graphic.
For example, Duchaufour-Lawrance drew his inspiration from Rome’s distinct designs and resources and the define of the umbrella pines appears in his Borghese table, which he adapted for the Salon des Pensionnaires, though the paving of the By way of Appia Antica inspired the tables he developed for the Salon de Lecture and the Salon Bleu.
The Grand Salon at Villa Medici.
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The Virgola chairs by Andreatti are current in the Salon Bleu and Salon de Lecture, when her Welcome sofa and armchairs for Fendi Casa adorn the Salon des Pensionnaires.
In sync with the colours of the walls, the Sandia couch intended by Nguyen and created by Fendi Casa appears in a heat orange-rusty tone and is a vital aspect of the Petit Salon. The Belleville Armchairs, built by the Bouroullecs and created by Vitra, stand out in the Grand Salon.
Many thanks to a partnership with the Mobilier National, a number of modern-day and up to date tapestries, mainly by gals artists, are staying introduced to the villa. Will work by Louise Bourgeois, Sheila Hicks, Aurelie Nemours, Alicia Penalba and Sonia Delaunay, as properly as Raoul Ubac, Edoardo Chillida and Patrick Corillon, are exhibited in the rooms along with tapestries from the academy’s collections, from the so-named “Indes” series and the cycle of the Quattro Stagioni [Four Seasons] on preparatory cartoons by Francesco Salviati.
The Salons of Villa Medici experienced not gone through any sizeable improvements for 20 several years.
The decorations in the Grand Salon were restored under the supervision of Pierre-Antoine Gatier, chief architect of historic monuments, and the tapestries of the Quattro stagioni cycle had been restored by the Bobin Custom workshop more than a two-year interval.
This refurbishment was also an chance to update the sound of the Salons with acoustic engineering expert Devialet to produce custom-made acoustic panels set up powering the tapestries of the Grand Salon in get to boost the sound experience of the put with no altering it.
The Salons will be extremely open for visits from Friday by means of Sunday.
The Salon des Pensionnaires at Villa Medici.
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This is the latest restoration task in Rome supported by Fendi. The completion of the restoration do the job of the Temple of Venus and Rome, just one of the most legendary monuments of the Roman Empire, were being done very last year thanks to the donation of 2.5 million euros by the style residence, which to start with pledged to sponsor the operates in 2019, when it also held its couture display at the web page to even further mark its dedication.
The company has previously demonstrated its adore for Rome by the restoration of the Trevi Fountain, which began in 2013 and was completed in 2015 — adopted by a couture show held at the location in 2016.
The model has been furthermore investing in the Fendi for Fountains venture, which contains the restoration of the elaborate of the “Four Fountains” and the preservation of the fountains del Gianicolo, del Mosè, del Ninfeo del Pincio and del Peschiera.
In 2015, Fendi gave back to the metropolis the Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana in the EUR district, which it chose as its new headquarters.
