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14 december 2011

You too can help us grow up, follow our initiatives and become an active part and promoter of the future of the Foundation.

Every small or big help will be essential to keep the place where Achille Castiglioni worked for more than 40 years open and continue to share it with all of you.

the foundation

In January 2006, the heirs of Achille Castiglioni signed a five-year agreement with the Milan Triennale so that the Achille Castiglioni Studio Museum could be opened to the public and continue its articulated archival work. Given the success of the public in recent years, the Castiglioni family wanted to continue sharing the place and the stories it contains with visitors. For this reason and to develop the many projects in which the Studio Museo is involved, the Achille Castiglioni Foundation was born on 14 December 2011. The Foundation’s main purpose is to catalogue, order, archive and digitize the projects, drawings, photos, models, films, conferences, objects, books, magazines, in short, the whole world within which Achille worked during more than 60 years of activity, first with his brother Pier Giacomo, then from 1968, from alone.

This work was started with the help of the Studio’s historical collaborators and is now followed by Antonella Gornati who has worked closely with Achille Castiglioni for more than 20 years. Preserving all this heritage in a modern key means cataloging it, narrating it and sharing it with the wider public. In parallel, the Foundation at the Studio Museum from Tuesday to Saturday (from 10 to 13) organizes guided tours for both individuals and groups. During the visit, the four rooms of the studio are shown: the first contains the prototypes and models, the second the drafting machines and many curiosities, the third room contains the anonymous objects that Achille Castiglioni collected during his life and which he used in his lessons at the Polytechnic of Turin and Milan, to tell, through them, important themes on design and finally in the meeting room there are various objects that have made the history of design over a long period of time.

To help the Foundation you can: come and visit us, give an entrance ticket to a friend of yours, donate your contribution to the following bank address:
IBAN IT 06 J 0200801628000101863304