25 Mar – 06 Sep 2026
Milan, Italy
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This retrospective examines the work of Lella Vignelli and Massimo Vignelli, tracing their influence on international design and graphic culture. A focused selection of furniture, interiors, drawings, models, photographs, manuals, trademarks, and publications maps the breadth of their practice while outlining the ideas that shaped it. The exhibition follows their trajectory from postwar Milan to New York, where they established their studio in 1965 and developed a transatlantic presence within a growing design discourse.
Organized in collaboration with the Vignelli Center for Design Studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology, which houses more than 750,000 documents and artifacts related to their work, the exhibition draws extensively on archival material to situate the couple’s output within the broader cultural networks that informed it. The project was also developed with the Vignelli family, contributing firsthand insight into a partnership that spanned more than five decades.
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