The exhibition follows the history of the Italian artist design between 1968 and 2000, in parallel and in a dialectic relationship with the industrial design for the interior decoration and home.
About 60 artists and architects with more than 120 art works shown among objects, lamps, furniture, ordered by period, trend or author (Artist or Artist/architect), in addition to a special section, curated by Mario Lovi and dedicated to the Megalopoli collection by Agneta Holst.
"Shaped like nest sofas, wardrobes like beach cabins, chairs like a question mark, stone-stools, flamingo-shelves, rhino- chest of drawers, ceramic carpets, coffee-pots which liven up in a sort of magic ballet...What happens to the domestic landscape when is an artist to project furniture and furnishings?" This exhibition intends to answer to this question, gathering some of the main Italian examples of what has been proposed in the last thirty years of the XX century in a so attractive but even disturbing field, because of its fleeting balance, being in a borderline zone between art and design. In our way of living, there are every day rooms, quite and sometimes banal rooms, where objects and furniture are silent, mute witnesses of our everyday matters. We have other rooms: places where the alterity reveals through the language of art; where "other voices" talk through furniture different from the usual design products, because the matter is assigned to furniture and furnishings tagged by artists" (text by Isa Tutino) During the nineties the "poetry of fragment" grew up (Luciano Bartolini, Toni Cordero, Antonio Annichiarico) in addition to a mythical-ludic trend with Dalisi, Luigi Serafini, Ico Parisi, Paolo Echaurren and Emilio Tadini. After the experience of Memphis, Metamemphis and Memphis extra follow, with avant-gard artists such as Pistoletto, Chia, Paladino, Bagnoli, Boetti, Luigi Serafini and the century ends in a introspective way with the big MOI by Giandomenico Sozzi.

A special section, cured by Mario Lovi, is dedicated to La collezione Megalopoli, a widening on the research and production between art and design, a collection of furniture of a workshop-gallery, operative from the sixties to the eighties in Milan and led by Agneta Holst. In this section there are works designed by the artists and produced in limited edition by the artisans of several cities in Italy: some wooden ones in Lucca and some in marble in Pietrasanta. Among these artists: Carlo Accardi,Paolo Buggiani, Piero Dorazio, Enrico Castellani, Alik Cavaliere, Pietro Consagra, Agostino Ferrari, Mauro Lovi, Ugo Marano, Sandro Martini, Mario Nigro, Mimmo Paladino, Gianni Pettina, Bobo Piccoli, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Gio Pomodoro, Shama (Cinzia Tondoi), Ettore Sottsass, Tarshito (Nicola Strippoli). Catalogue published by: Edizioni Fondazione Ragghianti Studi sull'Arte.(Fondazione Ragghianti)