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Until January 5 2014 to MAXXI PLAYFUL INTER-ACTION, Project Alcantara-MAXXI

After a long process of study and experimentation, the 12 November was inaugurated the third edition of the collaboration Alcantara-MAXXIBegan in 2011 to explore new creative expressions contemporary. PLAYFUL INTER-ACTION, the MAXXI from November 12 2013 until January 5 2014, Addresses an aspect known and yet so far never fully explored: the multisensory of Alcantara.

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PLAYFUL INTER-ACTION. Alcantara-MAXXI project, an interactive exhibition to investigate the sensory material

The third exhibition, fruit of the collaboration between MAXXI and Alcantara started in 2011, deals with a well-known and yet never fully explored aspect: the sensory material. PLAYFUL INTER-ACTION, the MAXXI 12 from November to January 5 2014 its main purpose is to make the values ​​of a covering material that is part of our daily life “physically” understandable.

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The 40 years of the sofa TOGO Ligne Roset on display from SPACE Pontaccio, Fuorisalone 2013

"A tube of toothpaste folded on itself like a tuba and fixed at both ends", is how its creator, the French designer, defined it Michel Ducaroy in 1973. A sofa designed "to last longer in fashion", the result of the reflections of its inventor on the possible use of new materials such as expanded era el 'polyester wadding.