{"id":235762,"date":"2024-08-29T10:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/?post_type=canvasflow&p=235762"},"modified":"2024-08-29T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T14:27:15","slug":"cini-boeri-stauette-by-elena-salmistaro","status":"publish","type":"id_project","link":"https:\/\/interiordesign.net\/projects\/cini-boeri-stauette-by-elena-salmistaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Elena Salmistraro Crafts A Tribute To Architect Cini Boeri"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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August 29, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n

Words: <\/span>Peter Webster<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photography: <\/span>Courtesy of Elena Salmistraro<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Elena Salmistraro Crafts A Tribute To Architect Cini Boeri<\/h1>\n\n\n

In 2018, Milan-based artist and product designer Elena Salmistraro<\/a> paid tribute to four distinguished Italian predecessors\u2014Achille Castiglioni, Riccardo Dalisi, Michele De Lucchi, and Alessandro Mendini\u2014by rendering each as an enameled figurine in a series dubbed Most Illustrious for Venetian ceramics workshop Bosa<\/a>. Now, the first-name-only boys\u2019 club gets an equally deserving female member: Cini Boeri, on the 100th anniversary of the pioneering architect\u2019s birth. (Having lived to 96, she almost got to celebrate in person.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with the men, Salmistraro has created a wittily abstracted version of Boeri that melds her physical traits with elements from some of her best-known designs. Her signature hairstyle\u2014a blunt-cut bob with bangs\u2014everpresent neck scarf, and dark-framed glasses are juxtaposed with a body that incorporates the ridged modularity of her 1971 Serpentone sofa and the cushioned fullness and chrome-leg angularity of her 1973 Botolo chair. Boeri\u2019s textiles inform the jazzy pattern and vivid glazes splashed over the 12\u00bd-inch-tall statuette, while its fluid curves echo those found in her architecture. \u201cThe figurines go beyond being simple portraits,\u201d notes Salmistraro. \u201cThey witness the profound connection between the master and his or her work, by embodying the concept we are what we<\/em> make.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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