Exhibition
“Tra le Briccole di Venezia”
(Among the posts in Venice)
Arsenale of Venice, 26 August – 26 September 2010.
PRESS RELEASE
Slice of Briccole _Slice of Venezia _ by Starck
RIVA 1920 in collaboration with the creator PHILIPPE STARCK wishes to do
something practical for the City of Venice.
RIVA 1920 and Philippe Starck are supporting the Fondazione MaterDomini
(MaterDomini Foundation) Centro Tutela del Bambino Onlus
(Centre for the Protection of Children).
For the entire duration of the exhibition “TRA LE BRICCOLE DI VENEZIA”,
26 August to 26 September, all funds from the sale of the set of table
mats designed by Philippe Starck and produced by RIVA 1920 will support
the Fondazione MaterDomini - Centro Tutela del Bambino.
The price of each 6-piece set of table mats
is 60,00 euros (including V.A.T.)
RIVA INDUSTRIA MOBILI S.p.A. – Via Milano, 137 – 22063 Cantù (CO) Italy - Tel. +39 031 73 30 94 Fax +39 031 73 34 13
SHOWROOM – DIVISIONE CONTRACT - UNITA’ PRODUTTIVA 2 – Via Genova, 13 – 22063 Cantu’ (CO) Italy
MUSEO DEL LEGNO – Via Borgognone, 12 – 22063 Cantù (CO) Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
www.riva1920.it
Fondazione Materdomini – its aims and its actions:
Since 1993 the Fondazione MaterDomini has been organising not-for-profit activities
in support of disadvantaged children and families, concentrating particularly on cases
of mistreatment and sexual abuse against minors.
The Foundation seeks to help families in situations of great difficulty and distress, and
sometimes involves taking victims of mistreatment, abuse or serious neglect into care. We
are convinced that it is poverty and marginalisation that prevent these families from
bringing up their children as they have a right to. The Foundation’s operations are
organised in three interconnected specialist sections: Educational Communities for under16s, of which there are two; the Clinical Section and the Centre for Research and Training.
The Communities take on the role of “Temporary Home”, offering the child a welcoming
and caring environment where confidence and trust in adults can be rebuilt.
This work benefits from the psychotherapeutic support of the Clinical Section and the
residual resources of the families themselves. The Sunflower Community (“I Girasoli”)
is home to 6 adolescent girls, while the Daisy Community ( “Le Margherite”) is home
to 8 children under the age of 12. These children are taken into the Foundation’s
homes having first been separated from their families by Court Order arising from
neglect, mistreatment or sexual abuse. Finally, it is the aim of the Centre for Research
and Training to promote a culture of child protection and strengthening of the family.
Fondazione Materdomini Centro per la tutela del bambino ONLUS
Via G. Cafasso, 2 - 30175 Venezia - Marghera - Tel. e Fax 041 938 047
www.ctbonlus.org e-mail: [email protected]
Codice Fiscale: 03497680276
C/C presso BCC di Marcon _ IBAN IT45 M 08689 02000 001010010666
For Information:
RIVA Industria Mobili SpA
Ufficio Stampa – Veronica Longhi
Tel. 0039 031 73 30 94
[email protected]
RIVA INDUSTRIA MOBILI S.p.A. – Via Milano, 137 – 22063 Cantù (CO) Italy - Tel. +39 031 73 30 94 Fax +39 031 73 34 13
SHOWROOM – DIVISIONE CONTRACT - UNITA’ PRODUTTIVA 2 – Via Genova, 13 – 22063 Cantu’ (CO) Italy
MUSEO DEL LEGNO – Via Borgognone, 12 – 22063 Cantù (CO) Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
www.riva1920.it
PHILIPPE STARCK’S BIOGRAPHY
"I like to open the doors to people's brain." - Philippe Starck
Whenever we discover an object or a place designed by Philippe Starck, we enter a world
of wall-to-wall imagination, surprises and fabulous fantasy.
For more than three decades, this unique and multifarious creator, designer and architect
has been a part of our daily lives by creating unconventional objects, whose purpose is to
be "good" before being beautiful, and iconic destinations that take the members of his
"cultural tribe" out of themselves and, most importantly, towards something better.
His father, an inventor and aeronautic engineer, gave the young Philippe Starck the desire
to create and the capacity to dream.
Several years and several prototypes later, he was commissioned to work for President
François Mitterrand. This was also when he began designing furniture for leading Italian
and international firms.
Philippe Starck designs his hotels and restaurants in the same way a director makes a
film, developing scenarios that will lift people out of the everyday and into an imaginative
and creative mental world. His hotels have become timeless icons and have added a new
dimension to the global cityscape.
When Philippe Starck imagined "democratic design" – quality objects at lower prices so
that more people can enjoy the best – he was a lone voice at a time when design was
turned exclusively towards an elite.
There are few areas of design he hasn't explored, from furniture to mail-order homes,
motorbikes, mega-yachts, even artistic direction for space-travel projects, to name but a
few. Philippe Starck believed in the power of green long before ecology became
fashionable, out of respect for the planet's future. Early on, he imagined the Good Goods
catalogue of nonproducts for non-consumers in tomorrow's moral market, and set up his
own organic food company. More recently he developed the revolutionary concept of
"democratic ecology" by creating affordable wind turbines for the home, soon to be
followed by solar-powered boats and hydrogen cars.
Philippe Starck is a tireless and rebellious citizen of the world who considers it his duty to
share his ethical and subversive vision of a fairer world. He stays tuned in to our dreams,
desires and needs - sometimes before we get there ourselves - by making his work a
political and civic act which he accomplishes with love, poetry and humour.
Website : www.starck.com
Press relations : [email protected] Tel: +33 1 48 07 59 31
RIVA INDUSTRIA MOBILI S.p.A. – Via Milano, 137 – 22063 Cantù (CO) Italy - Tel. +39 031 73 30 94 Fax +39 031 73 34 13
SHOWROOM – DIVISIONE CONTRACT - UNITA’ PRODUTTIVA 2 – Via Genova, 13 – 22063 Cantu’ (CO) Italy
MUSEO DEL LEGNO – Via Borgognone, 12 – 22063 Cantù (CO) Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
www.riva1920.it