garage BENTIVOGLIO

All the furniture or furnishing accessories previously exhibited inside the BENTIVOGLIO garage space belong to the category of industrial design, that is, they have the common characteristic of being born in order to be produced entirely thanks to the use of automatic machines.
The big difference between a design object and a craft object is that the design of the former takes place in its entirety, and therefore its creator does not intervene in the production process, while that of the second is continuous, since it is possible to intervene during the work to modify or correct any errors or defects. \nThe chandelier chosen for this event belongs to the world of craftsmanship. Although we do not know either its origin or the glassware that executed it, you can easily date its construction to before 1879, when Thomas Edison patented the incandescent bulb, since it was born as a candelabrum chandelier, and then adapted to use with electricity. Unlike an industrial design object, therefore, it has not undergone the process of obsolescence, where the new object on the market has surpassed its previous one, but it has managed to pass unscathed through history and technological developments, adapting to them. \n The use of styled furnishing elements inside the rooms of the building tells how collectors do not ignore the spaces and places they inhabit, but have understood how re-furnishing a historic environment means bringing out formal relationships and architectural proportions that have also influenced the production of the objects intended to fill those rooms.
It is not unusual for elements from other palaces or houses to be able to fit organically into the spaces of Palazzo Bentivoglio, precisely because they were produced by the same koiné that saw these places and objects born together.
Even with different characteristics and meanings, therefore, the standard is not a totally contemporary category, but it can be declined, together with seriality, even in the world that preceded industrial production.