Barbara Brondi dialogues with Enrica Cavarzan and Marco Zavagno, founders of Zaven. The lecture explores some of Zaven’s projects to investigate their method and design approach. The event is curated by Circolo Del Design, within the programme of Torino Design City to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the nomination of Torino as UNESCO Creative City of Design. Information to participate at this link.

Saturday 26th October 2024 – h. 17:30 | Polo del ‘900 – Auditorium, Piazzetta Franco Antonicelli, Torino

Ugo La Pietra relives the key moments of his career, in an intimate and passionate dialogue led by Marco Rainò. The event is curated by Circolo Del Design, within the programme of Torino Design City to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the nomination of Torino as UNESCO Creative City of Design. Information to participate at this link.

Tuesday 22th October 2024 – h. 18:30 | Polo del ‘900 – Auditorium, Piazzetta Franco Antonicelli, Torino

As part of the eleventh edition of Conversations around the Future, Marcò Rainò talks with Serena Uccello, journalist of Il Sole 24 Ore, and Mario Cucinella, architect and designer. Information on the event is available at this link.

Saturday 19th October 2024 – h. 21:45 | Conversazioni sul Futuro – Teatrino del Convitto Palmieri, Lecce

MMOOS., a new reality in contemporary Italian design, makes its debut at EDIT Naples. The artistic direction and the poetic first collection, MOSTRO, are signed by BRH+.
Archivio di Stato di Napoli, Piazzetta del Grande Archivio, 5 – Naples, from 11th to 13th October, 2024

For the international festival Seed – Design Actions for the Future, Barbara Brondi and Marco Rainò present a reflection on their design practice, with a focus on the theme of balance between human beings, artificial environments and natural ecosystems.
Friday 27th September 2024 – h 12:00 | Seed – Design Actions for the Future, Perugia

The project The Art of Creative City Making by Charles Landry, designed by BRH+ for SI – South Italy Architecture Festival, is selected to be part of the latest prestigious publication by Bounty Hunters. The Annual Graphic Design Archive Vol.1 represents an accurate selection of the pinnacle of graphic design excellence worldwide in a yearly printed compilation. The book can be purchased at this link.

BRH+ is part of ‘PARALLELI’, a series of meetings organised by IN/Architettura to present the winning projects of the prestigious IN/Architettura Prize Piemonte and Valle d’Aosta 2023. Cascina Elena Winery by BRH+ is the protagonist of a round table, in a dialogue with Casa di Langa by Parisotto&Formenton and Gas Studio. Architect and designer Jeannot Cerutti will also participate in the discussion. 2 Professional Training Credits are granted for the meeting. To participate, please register at this link.
Monday, May 20, 2024 – h 17.30 | Circolo del Design, via S. Francesco da Paola, 17 – Torino

Greek designer Kostas Lambridis presents a monumental fountain in the iconic courtyard of Teatro Litta. This enigmatic and layered installation was initially conceived in Turin during IN Residence’s Design Residency #2. The installation is produced by 5VIE as part of their official programme. | Teatro Litta, Corso Magenta 24 – Milan, from 15th to 21st of April, 2024

The studio presents a work of selection and creative re-elaboration of CEDIT’s large porcelain slabs, with the aim of enhancing the concept of relationship and sharing that produces surprising and novel configurations. The “composition duets” that are on exhibit at the Salone del Mobile in the CEDIT stand, designed by BRH+, have as protagonists Franco Guerzoni & Zaven, BRH+ & Formafantasma, Matteo Nunziati & Federico Peri, Cristina Celestino & Zanellato / Bortotto.
Rho Fiera Milano, Hall 24 | G02 G03, from 16th to 21st of April, 2024.

Cascina Elena Winery, a project signed by BRH+, is included in the important monographic exhibition dedicated to Aldo Amoretti, internationally renowned photographer who, through his shots, questions the relationships that architectures have with the places that host them. The exhibition consists of a sequence of couples of photographs, placed in dialogue: Cascina Elena Winery enters into a relationship with the Wadden Sea Centre designed by Dorte Mandrup. The photographies displayed in the exhibition bear witness to the work of authors of the calibre of Peter Zumthor, John Pawson, Alvar Aalto, Jacopo Sansovino, Aldo Rossi and Peter Märkli.

“Aldo Amoretti – Ascoltare i Luoghi”. Palazzo Banca d’Alba, via Cavour 4, Alba (CN). From 6 April to 5 May 2024, Free Entrance

This important exhibition by Gallerie d’Italia is the first monographic retrospective exhibition in Italy dedicated to the photographic work of Cristina Mittermeier. The set-up, designed by BRH+, starts from a symbolic elaboration of the author’s crucial themes to explore meaningful spatial solutions rendered through highly expressive materials.

Cristina Mittermeier. A Greater Wisdom
Gallerie d’Italia – piazza San Carlo 156, Torino.
From March 14th to September 1st 2024

The 11th edition of the Milano Design Film Festival takes place from 6 to 10 March. The new DFA – Design Film Award, established to celebrate the intersections between design and film, is awarded by an exceptional jury composed of Marco Rainò, Federica Sala and Dino Vannini. All details and the programme at milanodesignfilmfestival.com

The Cascina Elena Winery project has been awarded with IN/ARCHITETTURA 2023 prize, in the category best New Construction in Piedmont Italy, built in the last five years! The award,  given by IN/Arch (National Institute of Architecture) in collaboration with Archilovers, promotes the value of built works as the result of the  collaboration of different parties – the client, the architect, and the builder – and reflects the importance of architecture in urban and regional revitalization.

We are thrilled to announce the upcoming opening of the exhibition “Design in Metamorphosis”, a double solo show dedicated to the work of young designers Audrey Large and Théophile Blandet, curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò, commissioned and hosted by the prestigious Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève.

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The eco-friendly architecture of Cascina Elena Winery designed by BRH+ is part of the selection of projects featured in PLATFORM magazine’s exhibition-event The New Together, curated by Luca Molinari and Simona Finessi. An exhibition and platform for dialogue, The New Together presents 140 projects that are products of a new time, capable of indicating the change that the planet is experiencing and the solutions that can support this transition. Set up in the prestigious setting of the Scuola Grande di Misericordia in Venice, the exhibition is on view until July 30, 2023.

We are proud to announce another fantastic nomination for Cascina Elena Winery: the architecture project is finalist in Architizer’s A+Awards, in the Architecture +Facades category.

We are proud to announce that the eco-friendly architecture project Cascina Elena Winery has been nominated for the ArchDaily Building Of The Year Awards 2023! The competing projects, recognized for their technological, social and sustainability impact, are voted on by the community of readers on the ArchDaily platform. To vote for the Cascina Elena Winery project, click here.

We are proud to announce that the architectural project of Cascina Elena Winery has won the internationally renowned BIG SEE TOURISM AWARD 2022!

In the wonderful setting of Alta Langa, Cascina Elena Winery is an eco-sustainable project with minimal impact on the environment and the surrounding landscape. With its simple geometric shape, the building showcases an original reinterpretation of vernacular architecture that eliminates all unnecessary decoration, to give form and expression to the identity of the wine produced here, and the extreme care that is put into the agricultural process to obtain it.

Architecture

BRH+ completes the renovation of an apartment in the heart of Turin. Resulting from the union of two attic spaces, the apartment features a series of custom-designed fixed furniture used as containers and movable partitions. The interior design enhances volumes with a strong character: linear geometries that merge to shape unexpected and chromatically stimulating spaces, with an extraordinary climatic, luminous and acoustic comfort.

Architecture

We are proud to announce that the architectural project of Cascina Elena Winery has has been selected to compete for the prestigious Dezeen Architecture Awards 2022!

Architecture

BRH+ designs Cascina Elena Winery, a building in the heart of the Piedmontese Alta Langa devoted to the production of natural wines. This video expresses the spirit of the place through evocative images, sounds and words with the aim of making the viewer perceive the care instilled in the project.

Find out more the project here!

Architecture

The exhibition

IT Is: Tradition, Invention, Sharing, Responsibility is the exhibition, curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò for IN Residence and designed by BRH+, presents a reflection on key concepts in contemporary design by some of the most qualified and interesting designers of the contemporary Italian scene: Faberhama, Formafantasma, Roberto Sironi and Studio Ossidiana.

Using an intriguing display device, the set-up features a dense sequence of photographic images reproduced in an entirely unexpected way. The contents can be explored through a hybrid formula of analogue and digital contributions combining the physical visit with the surprise of an immaterial audio-visual experience.

On view at the prestigious Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne until April 22, 2022.

Graphic Design / Curatorship

Rooted Flows

The latest publications signed by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò is out! The monographs are dedicated to the work of the Belgian designer Linde Freya Tangelder (Destroyers/Builders) and Greek designer Kostas Lambridis.

Published with NERO Editions, the books are part of the series inspired by the IN Residence project and the developments of its Design Residencies, the last of which is dedicated to the theme “Rooted Flows”.

BRH + designs the graphic guidelines for the editorial series.

Buy it here!

Graphic Design

The preview!

In the January and February’s issue of the magazine Interni a text by Elisa Massoni gives a preview of the new project-event IT IS:.

Curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò for IN Residence and designed by BRH+, the exhibition at the prestigious Italian Cultural Institute in Cologne presents a reflection on the four concepts of Tradition, Invention, Sharing and Responsibility.

Through a completely new analogue-digital set-up, the theme is interpreted by some of the most qualified and interesting designers of the contemporary Italian scene: Faberhama, Formafantasma, Roberto Sironi and Studio Ossidiana.

More information and the date of the Opening soon!

Publications

BRH+ designs an eco-friendly architecture in the wonderful landscape of the Alta Langa to host a new winery: Cascina Elena.

Carried out in a complex historical period, the project and construction were managed in an extraordinarily short time to allow the clients to work the fruits of the 2021 harvest in the building.

Discover the project here!

Architecture

BRH+ is invited to contribute with an original graphic work to the exhibition “Lifetime Achievement Manifesto – A tribute by Italian graphics to the Compasso d’Oro masters”. Set up at the ADI Design Museum in Milan and curated by Luca Molinari, the exhibition is presented and illustrated by a dense catalog published by Electa.

Graphic Design

THE REASONS FOR DESIGN:
interview with Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò

Exploration, experimentation, the attitude to feed dialogue and collaboration from which new urgencies arise: the founders of BRH+ – Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò – tell about their professional commitment and their idea of design in a long interview with Cesare Biasini Selvaggi, Editorial Director of Exibart.

Interview

IN Residence Design Residency #2
“Rooted Flows”

Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò, initiator and curators of the IN Residence project, are happy to announce the second edition of IN Residence Design Residencies. The designers Destroyers / Builders (Linde Freya Tangelder) and Kostas Lambridis are invited to spend a period of study and research on the theme “Rooted Flows” in Turin, to develop two original projects produced by international galleries.

IN Residence Design Residency # 2 “Rooted Flows”
Destroyers / Builders + Kostas Lambridis
February 2021
DUPARC Contemporary Suites, Turin

Curatorship

Marco Rainò is appointed member of the international jury of “Free Patrick Zaki, Prisoner of Conscience”, special edition of the Poster For Tomorrow social communication competition, conceived by  Amnesty International Italia, Conversazioni sul futuro, Diffondiamo idee di valore in collaboration with Festival dei Diritti Umani, with the patronage of the Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna.

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BRIGATABIANCA

BRH+ works on the art direction and graphic design of Samuel‘s second solo album for Sony Music. A visual plot that is articulated through new elements: an alphabet of symbols, an embroidered uniform, a flag. The resulting imagery, presented on Digipack, vinyl and through various digital content, is immersed in the bright and dazzling chromatic energy of white and yellow.

Graphic Design / Curatorship

Workshop #14
“Truth Tellers”

Due to the worsening of the health emergency in Europe, IN Residence in agreement with MAAT Museum, has deemed it necessary to carry out the Workshop # 14 “Truth Tellers” in an a digital version on ZOOM online platform! Follow the IN Residence Instagram account for all updates regarding the workshop.

IN R Workshop #14 “Truth Tellers”
Thomas Ballouhey + Soft Baroque
4th–7th November 2020
In collaboration with
MAAT MUSEUM
In the context of
MAAT MODE

Curatorship

5VIE D’N’A TALKS
Design’n’Art for a Better World

Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò in conversation with Marcin Rusak and Roberto Sironi.
The dialogue, in addition to presenting the residency program for designers activated by IN Residence, is an opportunity to present – as an absolute preview – the new monographs published by NERO Editions and dedicated to the work of Rusak and Sironi.

Watch the Live Streaming here

Talk

Encoded Symbols

Two new books by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò are out today; two monographs dedicated to the work of designers Roberto Sironi and Marcin Rusak.

Published for the wonderful guys of NERO Editions, the books are part of a beautiful new series inspired by the IN Residence project and the developments of its Design Residencies, the first of which reflects on the topic “Encoded Symbols”.

BRH+ designs the graphic guidelines for this new editorial series, as well as drawing every square inch of these two paper beauties!

Buy here:
Roberto Sironi
Marcin Rusak

Graphic Design

BY CHARLES LANDRY
SI – South Italy Architecture Festival

We are proud to announce the forthcoming inauguration of a beautiful project! “The Art of Creative City Making by Charles Landry” curated by Marco Rainò with graphic and exhibition design by BRH+, is an exhibition-event that celebrates the use of imagination and creativity as crucial strategic resources in the process of city change and regeneration. The exhibition is the first worldwide retrospective on Charles Landry’s forty-year research work, the world’s leading expert on the art of regenerating cities through creativity. The exhibition is one of the most relevant events of the new “SI – South Italy Architecture Festival”.

September 4th 2020 – August 29th 2021
SI – South Italy Architecture Festival
Palazzo Miccichè, Favara (AG)

Curatorship

An article about Leonardo Mosso and his “home-studio-museum”

On the new issue of Icon Design, Marco Rainò is the author of an article dedicated to the genius and artistic legacy of Leonardo Mosso. The text is also an occasion to celebrate his “home-studio-museum”, a unique universe of pure timeless beauty. The wonderful pictures accompanying the article are by Luigi Fiano.

Writings

Il codice della bellezza (Live con orchestra)

Samuel’s new album, Il codice della bellezza (Live con orchestra) on @sonymusicitaly label, is out! BRH+ updates the visual alphabet with which Samuel’s creativity is communicated, designing a small graphic icon that incorporates the energy of his music.

Take a look here to some of the infinite variations of the album cover artwork.

Graphic Design

Naming and visual identity

Golfo Mistico is Samuel’s new creative creature: a place in which to produce excellent music, but also a space for experimentation open to dialogue between talents, in which to hybridize sounds and words with other sensory stimuli. BRH+ designs the name, the logotype and the original graphic pattern of this experiment, welcoming a new season of collaboration with Samuel.

Discover the entire project here!

Graphic Design

City of Turin @ Madrid Design Festival 2020 presents MARCA | Design Collection Made in Torino

The City of Turin takes part in the 2020 edition of the Madrid Design Festival as Guest of Honour City, presenting the exhibition – designed by BRH+ – of high quality artifacts included in the collection MARCA, a project conceived and curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò. Besides, Barbara Brondi presents the project MARCA at Madrid DesignPRO, a program organized by the Madrid Design Festival which hosts the key figures of national and international design.

Exhibition:
DIMAD – Matadero
Paseo de la Chopera 14, Madrid, Spain
February 6th-27th 2020
dimad.org

Conference:
COAM – Salón de actos
Calle de Hortaleza 63, Madrid, Spain
February 13th 2020
4.00 pm
madriddesignfestival.com

Discover the architectural setup here!

Architecture, Conference & Curatorship

EU: EUTÒPIA / UTOPIA / EUROPA

BRH + is invited by Slanted – one of the most important and influential design magazines in the world – to create an original graphic-manifesto for the edition # 34, a special monographic issue entirely dedicated to the theme “Europe”.

Discover the project here!

Graphic Design

Reflections on Alfabeta

On the occasion of the exhibition Alfabeta showing works by Leonardo Mosso and BRH+, Noire Gallery presents the Talk Reflections on Alfabeta. A conversation between Laura Castagno and BRH+.

Noire Gallery
via Piossasco 29b, Turin, Italy
October 15th 2019
6.30 pm

Discover Alfabeta here!

Conference

Workshop #13 Proximity Factor

IN Residence presents the thirteenth edition of its thematic educational and training program. Proximity Factor will take place in the magnificent setting of the city of Palermo as an activity included in the official calendar of the prestigious event Palermo Urban Thinker Campus 2019 entitled Human Flows.

IN R Workshop #13 Proximity Factor
Guillermo Santomà & Nel Verbeke
UN Habitat – Urban Thinker Campus 2019, Palermo, Italy
November 13th-16th 2019

See more on IN Residence website.

Curatorship

LEONARDO MOSSO & BRH+
Strutture-Scritture: Spazio Tempo Architettura

Alfabeta is the result of a new collaboration between Leonardo Mosso and BRH+. The exhibition explores the process of “multiple integrations” – graphic-architectural, but also digital-analogue – among the authors’ thoughts.

Noire Gallery, Turin, Italy
September 21st – October 18th 2019

Grand Opening:
September 20th 2019
6pm

Discover Alfabeta here!

Exhibition, Curatorship, Product Design, Graphic Design

Workshop #12 Geo-Synchronicity

IN Residence Design presents the twelfth edition of its educational program of thematic workshops which will be included in the calendar of cultural events that in 2019 celebrates Matera as the European Capital of Culture. The Workshop Geo-Synchronicity will take place in Matera (located in Basilicata Region, in South Italy) for 4 days. The event – structured as an important didactic-educational and theoretical research contribution to the program of activities promoted by the Open Design School of Matera 2019 – sees as protagonists in the role of Tutor, Zaven and Théophile Blandet.

IN R Workshop #12 Geo-Synchronicity
Zaven & Théophile Blandet
Matera 2019 – European Capital of Culture, Matera, Italy
July 25th-28th 2019

See more on IN Residence website.

Curatorship

Urban Thinker Campus

Marco Rainò is one of the protagonists of the Urban Thinker Campus Countless Cities, an extraordinary event organized in Sicily by UN-Habitat – the United Nations program on planetary settlements – which inaugurates the first edition of the Countless Cities Biennial conceived and promoted by Farm Cultural Park.
In the marvelous natural scenery of the Andromeda Theater of Santo Stefano Quisquina, on June 27th, Marco Rainò will talk about “Urban Resilience” and on June 29th, in the stimulating environment of the Favara Farm Cultural Park, he will be in dialogue with the eminent Charles Landry one of the most influential world experts on the use of creativity as a strategic resource for positive urban transformation and regeneration.

Conference

Decálogo

Visionnaire celebrates its fifteen years with an exceptional project that takes on the characteristics of a precious author’s book: published in a numbered series, the volume presents the ten founding values ​​of the company, defined through an overall vision that has the strength of a creed.

“Decálogo” is the result of a refined choral work that welcomes contributions of absolute prestige: edited by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò and with the graphic design of BRH+, the book is embellished with a series of ad hoc contents, which include a photographic work by Delfino Sisto Legnani and the critical thoughts of Felix Burrichter, Leon Sun and Natalia Timascheva.

Curatorship & Graphic Design

VITTORIA, AURORA, CROCETTA

Conceived and curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò exclusively for the Torino Chamber of Commerce in collaboration with the Piemonte Agency, the collection of everyday objects MARCA is the result of a synergetic work between some of the best Turin designers and manufacturing companies located in the same metropolitan area.

In the context of Ventura Future at BASE Milan, MARCA presents the new product “Vittoria”, designed by Stefano Cerruti of Bottega Studio Architetti and created by Quadrilatero, as well as a special edition of the “Aurora” lamp by Nucleo for Caino Design and the curtain “Crocetta” designed by lamatilde for Tappezzeria Druetta.

Ventura Future @ BASE
via Tortona 54, Milan / via Bergognone 34, Milan
Tuesday April 9th – Saturday April 13th 9:30am – 8pm
Sunday April 14th 2019 9:30am – 6pm
Open Evening: Wednesday April 10th 8pm – 10pm

Curatorship & Architecture

Architecture-frame

Conceived as an architecture-frame characterized by a central plan, the installation designed by BRH+ for CEDIT presents a preview of the new ceramic tile collections designed by Cristina Celestino and Federico Pepe for the company.
Composed of rotating elements useful for creating different environmental scenarios and included in a space delimited by a linear textile curtain, the structure is an integral part of a performance choreographed on the basis of an extraordinary original soundtrack written and performed by Teho Teardo.

Spazio CEDIT
Foro Buonaparte 14 A, Milan
8-14 April 9:30am – 6:30pm
Design Night: Wednesday April 10th  6:30-11pm

Architecture

BRH+ is proud to present a preview of its contribution to the permanent installation Omaggio a Gio Ponti – 5 Italian architects furnish the window of the Auditorium of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in Stockholm which will officially open on February 5, 2019 at the wonderful building of the Swedish capital to celebrate its 60th anniversary.

Product Design

Pensiero Radiale & Scrigno Mollino

The December 2018 issue of Icon Design contains a new “episode” of the recurring column Pensiero Radiale dedicated to investigating some project solutions connected to the theme of the globe, and another text written by Marco Rainò entitled Scrigno Mollino. This article – illustrated by Fabrizio Vatieri’s photographs – proposes a textual reflection on a visit to the archive that preserves memories and precious works by Carlo Mollino, one of the most mysterious and visionary Italian architects of the twentieth century.

Writings

Visual communication

BRH+ designs the visual communication of the 36 Torino Film Festival. This edition is dedicated to one of the greatest 20th century divas, Rita Hayworth, a hundred years after her birth.

Graphic Design

Graphic elaborations

BRH+ is the author of the graphic restyling of the visual identity used to promote new activities of Camera; the studio also curate the visual communication of the new exhibition Camera Pop

Graphic Design

New Web Site

After ten years of experiences (2008-2018) dedicated to research, thinking and experimentation in contemporary design, IN Residence – the program initiated and curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò – plans a new season of didactic activities, cultural dissemination and engagement in Talent Scouting that, starting from the original format, pursue the goal of an innovative course.
The new IN Residence Web Site with all the updated news is on-line!
www.inresidence-design.com

Curatorship

Luca Molinari, Director of the magazine Platform – Architecure and Design, is the author of the article that describes the set-up design by BRH+ of the exhibition dedicated by CAMERA to the photographic work of Carlo Mollino. The beautiful text, along with some pictures, is published in issue 19 of the magazine, now on sale.

Architecture / Graphic Design <

Pensiero Radiale

Bandiere eloquenti is the title of the new article for Pensiero Radiale – the column by Marco Rainò – published in September 2018 issue of Icon Design (Mondadori).

Writings

Exemplary Relationships between Design and Food

A conversation between Martí Guixé and Marco Rainò on the relationship between culture and food, between design and gastronomy. In a ping-pong of words and images, drawing inspiration from examples of model creativity, the two designers will tell the story of how design thinking has revolutionised the daily rite of eating in a positive sense.

Thursday, June 14, 2018
7.30pm
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
via Modane 16, Turin
Free entry until seats last

Read more on
www.bocusedoreuropeoff2018.it

Conference

During Milan Bridal Week 2018, at Fiera Milano City, BRH+ designs the installation of the exhibition History of a Dream, an event that celebrates the 50th anniversary of Maison Carlo Pignatelli.

Architecture / Graphic Design

3: INVENZIONE

On February 21, 2018 IQOS Embassy Torino hosts the third and last episode of the series of events Pensiero Radiale inspired by the column with the same name on ICON Design. Marco Rainò ends this cycle of tales referred to cross-disciplinary design with a collection of stories about invention.

Pensiero Radiale / Episode 3: INVENZIONE
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
7.30pm
IQOS Embassy Torino
via Porta Palatina 23 B, Turin

Conference

L’occhio magico di Carlo Mollino

The Graphic Design, Visual Communication and the Installation Design of the new exhibition at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia are realized by BRH+. L’occhio magico di Carlo Mollino. Fotografie 1934-1973 will open January 17 and shows the photographic production of the renowned architect from Torino.

Architecture / Graphic Design

2: ESPLORAZIONE

The second episode of the series of events Pensiero Radiale taking place at IQOS Embassy Torino is scheduled for January 18, 2018. Marco Rainò, author of the column with the same name on Icon Design magazine, is protagonist of a storytelling dedicated to the cross-disciplinary art of design, reflecting on the topic of exploration, title and key-word of the event.

Pensiero Radiale / Episode 2: ESPLORAZIONE
Thursday, January 18, 2018
7.30pm
IQOS Embassy Torino
via Porta Palatina 23 B, Turin

Conference

1: SIMBIOSI

Pensiero Radiale is a tale, a flow of concatenated stories about cross-disciplinary design and visionary poetics of human genius. The Icon Design column by Marco Rainò becomes a narrative meeting for IQOS Embassy Torino, structured in three episodes: December 6, 2017, January 18 and February 21, 2018.

Pensiero Radiale / Episode 1: SIMBIOSI
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
7.30pm
IQOS Embassy Torino
via Porta Palatina 23 B, Turin

Conference

Anni Luce 1997-2017

BRH+ was in charge of the Art Direction and Graphic Design of a new triple album by Subsonica featuring a collection of songs that celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the band. Anni Luce 1997-2017 is visually identified by a conceptual mix of original photo shoots.

Art Direction / Graphic Design

Lecce

Marco Rainò is the guest of the fifth edition of the festival Conversazioni sul futuro. Hosted in the refined context of Teatro Paisiello in Lecce, the event – entitled Utopia Contemporanea – has been conceived as a “mise en scène” of Pensiero Radiale, the column of thematic writings created for Icon Design.

Sunday October 29, 2017
5pm
Teatro Paisiello
via Giuseppe Palmieri 83, Lecce

Read more on conversazionisulfuturo.it

Conference

TALISMAN
The Tale

Ten contemporary talismans designed by ten internationally renowned designers and commissioned by IN Residence are on display at the Choir of the Church of Santa Pelagia. For the occasion Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò will present a voice and visual narration about the evocative power of a talisman, identified as an artifact where the explicit capability of the design process gives form to a complex narration and cultivates significant rituals. The event will also feature original thematic voicing composed by Max Casacci. The event is part of the official Torino Design of the City programme.

Friday, October 13, 2017
Exhibition: 6 – 8pm
Narration and Sound: 8pm
Choir of the Church of Santa Pelagia
via San Massimo 21, Turin

Curatorship

Pensiero Radiale

Istantanee d’utopia is the title of the new article for Pensiero Radiale – the column by Marco Rainò – published in the October 2017 issue of Icon Design.

Writings

Arrivano i Paparazzi!

BRH+ designs the visual communication for the new exhibition at CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia. Arrivano i Paparazzi! Fotografi e divi dalla Dolce Vita a oggi features 150 shots – from historical images to projects by contemporary artists – to narrate the world of photographic muckraking.

Graphic Design

Summer Curiosity Box
Upside down / Summer Collection

BRH+ designs the Summer Curiosity Box: Upside Down. Installed in the stores in Milan, Venice and Paris, this colorful overturned microcosm is the new landscape of the summer collection by MARELLA.

Architecture

TALISMAN
Contemporary Symbolic Objects
The exhibition

IN Residence presents the group show TALISMAN – Contemporary Symbolic Objects curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò in the magnificent setting of Palazzo Clerici in Milan. The exhibition, with an exclusive display project designed by BRH+, presents 46 contemporary talismans, one-of-a-kind pieces made for the occasion by 46 intrnational designers who over the years have taken part in the IN Residence project.

April 4 – 9, 2017
10am – 7.30pm
Palazzo Clerici
via Clerici 5, Milan

Architecture / Curatorship / Graphic Design

Tropical Curiosity Box
Paper Plumage / TropicOOz

With the project Tropical Curiosity Box: Paper Plumage, BRH+ designs for the fashion brand MARELLA the shop window system dedicated to the new Capsule Collection TropicOOz designed by the illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli. Launched in the days of the design Week, the shop windows of the Flagship Store in Milan reveal in advance the set-up for the Paris Store.

Architecture

The book

In parallel with the group show at Palazzo Clerici, the publishing house Corraini releases the book TALISMAN – Contemporary Symbolic Objects. Edited by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò and designed by BRH+, the precious volume includes a series of critical interpretations of the theme, while illustrating the 46 contemporary talismans specially created for the exhibition-event of the same name.

Curatorship / Graphic Design / Writings

The Auction

At the end of the exhibition on view during the days of Design Week in Milan, the 46 talismans on display will be the protagonists of an auction open to the public. The event, presented by the Swedish auction house Örnsbergsauktionen for IN Residence, will be held in the extraordinary setting of the Sala Arazzi of Palazzo Clerici. Visit talisman.inresidence.it to discover all the talismans and do the pre-bidding to purchase them.

Saturday, April 8, 2017
3pm
Palazzo Clerici
via Clerici 5, Milan

Curatorship / Graphic Design

Superdesign show

The Design Collection MARCA, initiated and curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò for the Torino Chamber of Commerce, presents in the context of the Superdesign Show in Milan two products: the rug Dora, resulting from the creative collaboration between Fashion Designer Serienumerica and Battilossi with Laboratorio Luparia, and a special edition of the Aurora lamp, designed by Nucleo and realized by Caino Design.

April 4 – 9, 2017
Superdesign show
@ Superstudio Più
via Tortona 27, Milan

Curatorship

Imaginative Rituals

The tenth book of the IN Residence. Design Dialogues collection, published by Corraini, will be launched on the occasion of the Milan Design Week.
The book – edited by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò and designed by BRH+ – features works by designers Marlène Huissoud, Fernando Laposse, Carlo Lorenzetti, Nick Ross, Birgit Severin, Tijmen Smeulders and narrates the days of the thematic workshop Imaginative Rituals.

Curatorship / Graphic Design / Writings

L’Italia di Magnum

The new identity of the visual communication of CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia is conceived and designed by BRH+. The first exhibition showing the new graphic design is: L’Italia di Magnum. Da Henri Cartier-Bresson a Paolo Pellegrin, a group exhibition that pays tribute to Magnum Photos, the most important and influential photographic agency in the world.

Graphic Design

Il Codice della Bellezza

BRH+ conceives the identity for the visual communication of Samuel’s Tour – in Italy and abroad – and designs the official merchandising: the typographical alphabet designed ad-hoc finds new applications on T-Shits, Posters and others products, made in series or limited edition.

Art Direction / Graphic Design

The City

The City is the title of the new, extraordinary musical experiment Max Casacci and Daniel Mana (MCDM) developed in collaboration with saxophonist Emanuele Cisi, with the participation of the most talented contemporary Italian jazz musicians – including Enrico Rava, Flavio Boltro Furio Di Castri and Gianluca Petrella.
The art direction and graphic design of the disc, released in digipack and vinyl for the label Warner Music, are signed by BRH +.

Art Direction / Graphic Design

Products

The new catalogue Products is the sum of LAGO thinking applied to all habitable environments, domestic and not. BRH+ is the art director of this macro-volume, innovative atlas for the identification of each product of the manufacturing company, illustrated in the context of a sequence of significant architectural interiors.

Art Direction

Pensiero Radiale

Il codice del nodo is the title of the latest Pensiero Radiale the theme column written by Marco Rainò for Icon Design. The article in the April issue of the magazine proposes a reflection in five episodes dedicated to the theme of the knots and interlacement.

Writings

Libri d’autore

BRH+ is responsible for the concept and graphic design of the monographic books that present the first six ceramic tile collection realized by as many authors for CEDIT – Ceramiche d’Italia brand. Accompanied by critics in-deph texts, the volumes add to the story of the individual projects a rich array of images.

Art Direction / Graphic Design

Contemporary Symbolic Objects

Talisman is the title of the group show curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò to celebrate ten years of activity of the IN Residence project.
The exhibition will be presented in the marvelous setting of the noble manor Palazzo Clerici in Milan during the upcoming Design Week in April.

Curatorship / Graphic Design

Milano

CEDIT opens a new showroom in Milano designed by BRH+.

Opening: Thursday,
December 15, 2016
6.30pm
Spazio CEDIT
Foro Buonaparte 14, Milan

Interior Design

Never Stop Designing Spaces

The art direction for the contemporary furniture brand LAGO moves in several directions: with Never Stop Designing Spaces the company tells its story, in a new publishing project for Rizzoli.

Art Direction

Il codice della bellezza

BRH+ takes charge of the art direction for the solo debut of Samuel, creating a complete visual strategy for the design of all the graphics and the Codice della bellezza a new font that takes its name from the title of the album.

Art Direction / Graphic Design

Inner Vox

Demonology HiFi, the new sound project by Max Casacci and Ninja, has art direction and graphic design by BRH+; the album Inner Vox features imagery of insects macrophotographed and digitally enhanced.

Art Direction / Graphic Design

Pensiero Radiale

The Tattooed Body is the title of the latest Pensiero Radiale the theme column written by Marco Rainò for Icon Design. The article in the issue now on newsstands focuses in five episodes on indelible inks with which to decorate the skin.

Writings

Fiorano

While waiting for the opening of the new Store in Milan, the Showroom of the brand CEDIT in Fiorano Modenese has been inaugurated, both designed by BRH+.

Interior Design

MATRICE

BRH+ | Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò design the collection of ceramic tiles Matrice – disclosed in its complete range – for the relaunch of the prestigious Italian brand CEDIT – Ceramiche d’Italia.

Product Design

Marco Rainò writes the text for the exhibition of Nucleo at the Project Space del Centre d’Art Contemporain in Genève.

Writings

Poetiche Contemporanee

Italian Design: contemporary poetics is the title of the conference of Marco Rainò at the Centre d’Art Contemporain in Genève, on October
18th 2016.

Conference

Imaginative Rituals

Imaginative Rituals is the title of the tenth edition of the Workshop of the IN Residence series, conceived and curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò. Saturday October 8th the outcome of the project and the works by the hosted international designers will be presented in a conference in Turin.

Curatorship

Marco Rainò is the author of the text for the photography exhibition of Simone Mussat Sartor Non ora, non qui at the Contemporary Art Gallery Alberto Peola in Turin.

Writings

Pensiero Radiale

Out now the new issue of the magazine Icon Design with the text titled Cosmo Collage by Marco Rainò for his section Pensiero Radiale.

Writings

Inner Vox

The new music project by Max Casacci and Ninja has the Art Direction and Graphic Design by BRH+. The single Totem is out prior to the launch of the forthcoming album.

Art Direction / Graphic Design

Il Codice della Bellezza

BRH+ is in charge of the Art Direction and Graphic Design of the new solo work by Samuel. The new album, anticipated by the single La risposta, will be out in few months.

Art Direction / Graphic Design

Nothing is real

BRH+ designs the visual communication and the set-up of the exhibition NOTHING IS REAL – When the Beatles met the East for the MAO – Museum of Oriental Art of Turin.

Opening: May 31, 2016
7.30 – 11pm
MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale
via San Domenico 11, Turin

Read more on maotorino.it

Architecture / Graphic Design

NYC x DESIGN
Awards Cedit

Cedit – Ceramiche d’Italia won the NYCxDESIGN Award, a global design competition in New York, in the category: Building Products.

Read more on interiordesign.net

Product Design

In the occasion of the exhibition Italian made. From Middle Ages to Made in Italy Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò in conversation with Domitilla Dardi and Marco Romanelli.

Contemporary Poetics of the “Made in Italy”

May 12, 2016
4pm
Sala di Diana
Reggia di Venaria
piazza della Repubblica 4,
Venaria Reale, Turin

Conference

Visible Invisible

Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò are authors of Visible Invisible, ninth book of the IN Residence. Design Dialogues collection, published by Corraini. The book will be launched during the Milan Design Week 2016. BRH+ conceived also the book’s graphic design.

Book launch
& thematic cocktail:
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
6 – 9pm
121+
via Savona 17/5, Milan

Curatorship / Graphic Design

MATRICE

In the occasion of Milan Design Week 2016 for the prestigious brand CEDIT, Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò will launch the collection Matrice that explores the consistency of cement according to an unexpected expressive range of surfaces.

Thursday, April 14, 2016
6 – 11pm
Spazio CEDIT
Foro Buonaparte 14, Milan

Product Design

Ceramiche d’Italia

BRH+ designs the new identity of CEDIT, the historic brand relaunched by Florim and that has been for more than fifty years an important reference in the Twentieth Century.

April 12 – 17, 2016
10am – 7pm
Spazio CEDIT
Foro Buonaparte 14, Milan

Brand Identity / Graphic Design

21st Century.
Design After Design

MARCA a project conceived and curated by Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò it’s shown at the XXI Triennale di Milano International Exhibition, entitled 21st Century. Design After Design.

April 2 – June 12, 2016
Accademia di Belle
Arti di Brera
via Brera 28, Milan

Curatorship / Graphic Design

Pensiero Radiale

The new issue of Icon Design magazine is out now with the text titled Floreal Code, part of the column Radial thinking signed by Marco Rainò.

Writings

Marco Rainò is author of the text Architecture and Interior Design in Turin: A Short Story in Six Snapshot inside the book European Design Stories.

April 12 – 17, 2016
Atelier Clerici
via Clerici 5, Milan

Writings

Never Stop

Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò continue in the Art Direction task for the innovative contemporary furniture brand LAGO, that for the occasion of the Milan Design Week 2016 launches the new communication campaign NEVER STOP.

Art Direction

Ever-Changing Home

After signing the first four, BRH+ designs exclusively for LAGO the new Interior Mood Ever-Changing Home. With this series, a system of interior decorations are introduced to characterize and identify the interior architectures.

Product Design

Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò are curators of the section Made in Italy. Contemporary Poetics, part of the exhibition Italian made. From the Middle Ages to Made in Italy in the prestigious set up of the La Venaria Reale palace.

March 19 – July 10, 2016
Room of the Arts
Reggia di Venaria
piazza della Repubblica 4,
Venaria Reale, Turin

Curatorship / Graphic Design

Marco Rainò and Gianluigi Ricuperati are authors of Visiorama Lingotto, the new booklet of the well-known collection published by Corraini, that illustrate and discover the events related to the astonishing architecture of an historic building, the Lingotto in Turin.

Writings

Barbara Brondi & Marco Rainò have been invited by Angela Rui and Maja Vardjan curators of BIO Ljubljana Biennial of Design 2017, in a conversation with Gianluigi Ricuperati, Italo Rota and Cristiano Seganfreddo.

Sunday, April 10, 2016
5pm
Pavilion Noosphere XX1
Giardini de La Triennale
viale Alemagna 6, Milan

XXI Esposizione Internazionale della Triennale di Milano

Conference