AlhóndigaBilbao – 43 Columns scene in Bilbao

Project 43 columns by Lorenzo Baraldi done within the cultural center AlhóndigaBilbao designed by Philippe Starck.
This is the story of 43 columns designed by Philippe Starck for his most important architectural project, AlhóndigaBilbao, the new cultural center of the basque city. The designer wants 43 unique pieces to represent the cultures of all the world.
Starck calls the production designer Lorenzo Baraldi to design the columns and look for master craftsmen able to model them in bronze, steel, Carrara’s marble, terracotta, bricks, wood, concrete and Lecce’s stone.
Baraldi finds eight laboratories in Italy and Spain that take up the challenge. In a few months, the columns must be completed, delivered and installed in Bilbao where they will be admired by visitors coming from all over the world.

Exhibitions

Cinema: come nasce un sogno

L’arte degli scenografi, dei costumisti e degli arredatori italiani.
FRASCATI (Rome), Scuderie Aldobrandini
Edited by A.S.C. Associazione italiana scenografi, costumisti e arredatori
www.aesseci.org

Staging the Orient

Visions of the East at La Scala and The Metropolitan Opera
New York, Dahesh Museum of Art
Edited by Vittoria Crespi Morbio and Stephen R.Edidin.
Exhibit design: Daniel Bradley Kershaw.

La Scala e l’Oriente 1778-2004

Milan, Palazzo Reale
Edited by Vittoria Crespi Morbio.
Exhibit design: Ezio Frigerio in collaborazione with Domenico Franchi.

Fare gli italiani

150 anni di storia nazionale
Torino, Officine Grandi Riparazioni
Edited by Walter Barberis and Giovanni De Luna.
Exhibit design: Studio Azzurro Fotografie di Mattia Boero

Vissi d’arte vissi d’amore

Exhibition dedicated to the woman and at the opera in Rome.
Tokyo, Ginza Matsuya Art Gallery.
Edited by Antonello Madau Diaz