Zanotta at the exhibition "Achille e Bruno . liberi di giocare / free to play"

Zanotta is delighted to announce its participation in the exhibition Achille e Bruno . liberi di giocare / free to play, curated by Marco Marzini Design Studio with coordination by Giovanna Castiglioni, hosted at the Fondazione Achille Castiglioni in Milan.
The exhibition draws a comparison between the design processes of Achille Castiglioni and Bruno Munari, exploring the playful origins of design: two masters united by a daily life of "attentive distractions" and "serious play", in which leisure becomes a tangible mode of creative experimentation.
Presented as an in-depth focus within the wider project Gioco e Progetto, Progetto è Gioco in the spaces of the Foundation, the show will be open to visitors from 29 May 2026 to 16 February 2027.
For the occasion, Zanotta takes part with the Singer chair designed by Bruno Munari, an art object in the shape of a chair that perfectly embodies the playful, experimental spirit of the exhibition. Designed in 1945, brought into the collection in 1988 and produced in nine numbered and signed examples, Singer forms part of the Zanotta Edizioni catalogue, a series on the boundary between art and design inspired by the tradition of Italian artistic craftsmanship. Presented with the invitation to "very brief visits", Singer playfully subverts the very function of sitting, turning an everyday gesture into a small puzzle to be solved: precisely that "serious play" the exhibition invites us to rediscover.
Alongside Bruno Munari's Singer chair, other Zanotta pieces sharing the same playful, experimental spirit will be on display: the Mezzadro stool and the Sella seat, both by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, together with three designs by Achille Castiglioni — the Primate kneeling-stool, the Joy rotating shelf bookcase and the Cumano folding table.