This week in Milan, during Salone del Mobile, the Triennale Milano is paying tribute to the late Fernando Campana. The Brazilian designer and artist worked for decades alongside his brother, Humberto Campana, founding Estudio Campana. Creating from their studio in Sao Paolo, the pair have created iconic furniture and objects characterized by assemblage, maximalism, material choice, and a love for design, culture, people, and the environment.
Photo by Gianluca Di Ioia, courtesy of Triennale Milano.
Fernando tragically passed late last year, and so this timely installation, up through April 23, includes two versions of their Ramoscello XXXL vase and their Corallo seat for Edra. At the touching tribute earlier today in Milan, architect and President of the Triennale Milano Stefano Boeri spoke alongside Humberto Campana.
Photo by Gianluca Di Ioia, courtesy of Triennale Milano.
Photo by Gianluca Di Ioia, courtesy of Triennale Milano.
“Triennale Milano pays tribute to Fernando Campana, who, with his brother Humberto, established one of the most important centres of new Brazilian design. During Milano Design Week we will be showing a project that the Campana studio created for Triennale in 2010,” said Boeri. “The Campana brothers managed to interact with art by bringing expressiveness and drama to design, but also a sense of fun, learning from the great experiments of Radical Design, which they were acquired from Massimo Morozzi. They created an imaginary zoomorphic world, synthesised materials derived from the pristine nature of Brazil, and formed fundamental partnerships with both indigenous and metropolitan cultures. Fernando and Humberto Campana were among the first to promote environmental awareness in design culture.”
Photo by Gianluca Di Ioia, courtesy of Triennale Milano.
Photo by Gianluca Di Ioia, courtesy of Triennale Milano.
