For the first Milan edition of Paris Internationale the gallery presentes a selected works by architect and designer Gaetano Pesce alongside new works by artist Giovanni De Francesco.

Among the works by Gaetano Pesce are Il Piede, Industrial Skin,  Feminino, and the Gaetana Lamp – a limited edition of six lamps designed by the architect for the gallery in 2022, alongside the resin invitation pieces created for that exhibition.

In parallel, the gallery presents the latest series by Giovanni De Francesco, Men with Caps, comprising ten colored pencil portraits on paper.

Galleria Luisa Delle Piane presents, as in every past edition, the work of three authors. The common thread linking the works of Andrea Branzi, Mario Ceroli, and the Delos project by Massimiliano Locatelli and Fabio Zambernardi is the relationship between natural and artificial materials, and the unexpected visual short circuit that emerges from it.

Immersioni is a previously unseen collection of eight unique pieces created by architect Andrea Branzi in 2023. Natural elements on which the artist has intervened using color and gold leaf are placed in dialogue with the plexiglass in which they are immersed. This collection once again highlights the artist’s ongoing exploration of coexistence and contrast between the natural and the artificial, a defining feature of his work and research. Seven of the pieces will be exhibited; the eighth is currently on display at the Triennale di Milano as part of the monographic exhibition dedicated to Andrea Branzi, titled Continuous Present by Toyo Ito, inaugurated on March 18.

Mario Ceroli’s work is represented by several iconic pieces from his artistic trajectory between the 1960s and 1970s, moving backwards in time from the Annabella cradle designed for Poltronova in 1973, through the felt profiles titled i centocolori (1972), presented at Galleria Il Segnapassi in Pesaro, to the sculptural horse from 1967 created for the stage design of Richard III by William Shakespeare.

Delos moves from the painted terracotta of ancient Greece to a contemporary version of embroidered painting on wood. Flower vases with archetypal forms, conceived by Massimiliano Locatelli and Fabio Zambernardi, are made of wood and decorated with an innovative embroidery technique that creates an unexpected new and contemporary visual language. This collection is part of the broader project Nullus Locus, consisting of furnishing elements that will be exhibited starting April 18 at Galleria Luisa Delle Piane, in conjunction with Design Week 2026.

ANDREA BRANZI

Galleria Luisa Delle Piane presenta un omaggio all’architetto Andrea Branzi attraverso una mostra delle edizioni progettate per la galleria nel corso di una lunga collaborazione iniziata nel 2015. Le opere in mostra sono il risultato di un dialogo continuo tra Branzi e Luisa Delle Piane. Andrea Branzi, architetto e designer, nato a Firenze nel 1938, dove si èlaureato nel 1966, ha vissuto e lavorato a Milano dal 1973 al 2023. Dal 1964 al 1974 ha fatto parte del gruppo Archizoom Associati, primo gruppo di avanguardia noto in campo internazionale, i cui progetti sono oggi conservati presso il Centro Studi e Archivio della Comunicazione dell’Università di Parma. La sua tesi di laurea e numerosi progetti sono conservati presso il Centro Georges Pompidou di Parigi. Co-fondatore di Domus Academy, prima scuola internazionale post-laurea di design e autore di numerosi libri sulla storia e la teoria del design, ha curato numerose mostre di questo settore in Italia e all’estero. Nel 1987 ha ricevuto il Compasso d’Oro alla carriera

Galleria Luisa Delle Piane presents a tribute to architect Andrea Branzi through an exhibition of the editions he designed for the gallery over a long collaboration that began in 2015. The works on display are the result of an ongoing exchange between Branzi and Luisa Delle Piane and reflect a material investigation focused on the concept of time.

Andrea Branzi, architect and designer, born in Florence in 1938, where he graduated in 1966, lived and worked in Milan from 1973 until 2023. From 1964 to 1974 he was a member of the group Archizoom Arssociati, the first group of internationally known avant-garde, whose project are now preserved at the Study Center and Archives of Communication, University of Parma. His dissertation and several projects are kept at the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Co-founder of Domus Academy, the first international postgraduate school of design and author of several books on the history of design, Branzi has curated numerous exhibition of this sector in Italy and abroad. In 1987 he received the Compasso d’Oro for his career.