Kartell Museo was founded in 1999 on the occasion of the company’s fiftieth anniversary and was created by President Claudio Luti with the aim of preserving, promoting and enhancing the company’s cultural, ideal, material and immaterial heritage.
In 2000 he was awarded the Guggenheim Impresa & Culture as best business museum.
Its collections, always growing, are made up of over 8,000 objects, 5,000 drawings and 15,000 photographs that give a precise picture of the evolution of Kartell’s history and production, the plastic materials used, the production technologies and the communication and distribution strategies used during the company’s seventy years of activity.
Kartell Museo is located in the Kartell factory in Noviglio, near Milan, the company’s headquarters since 1967. The building, designed by architects Anna Castelli Ferrieri and Ignazio Gardella, is today considered one of the most interesting examples of industrial architecture in Lombardy.
The exhibition path of the Museum is developed in a permanent exhibition of over 2,000 square meters, designed by architect Ferruccio Laviani and curated by Elisa Storace. The exhibition includes the most interesting materials related to the design history of the products built from 1949, the year the company was founded, to the present day.
Among these stand out the self-accessories, housewares, lamps, laboratory items, furniture and furnishing accessories that have contributed to the change of the domestic landscape and that have entered our everyday life as iconic objects of Italian design.
The Museum can be visited by appointment and works to spread the culture of design to the public through publications and research, guided tours and exhibitions.
