Italian design at the Paris Olympics

Casa Italia Paris 2024 was inaugurated on Saturday, the space that will welcome the athletes of the Italia Team and their guests during the XXXIII Olympic Games in Paris. For the first time, the public can access Casa Italia and immerse themselves in an exhibition, scenographic and emotional journey, in which the protagonists are art, architecture and design, with an all-round project entitled Ensemble.

Work by Edoardo Tresoldi. ph Pietro Savorelli for CONI

For Paris 2024, Casa Italia has developed at Le Pré Catelan – a building immersed in the Bois de Boulogne, the largest park in the city a few steps from the Champs-Élysée, where on the evening of June 23, 1894, the dinner desired by Baron Pierre de Coubertin took place to celebrate the birth of the Olympic Games of the modern era – in a contemporary place with a strong vocation for hospitality. The building is divided into various rooms flooded with light, thanks to the numerous windows and the garden that surrounds it, and these days it sees “Italian-style” incursions, ranging from typical landscape essences to works of art, designer furnishings and interiors inspired by those of the great masters of the 20th century.


Stalker, ph. Pietro Savorelli per CONI

The exhibition itinerary, curated by Beatrice Bertini and Benedetta Acciari, features furnishings designed by: Francesco Binfaré, Fernando and Humberto Campana, Jacopo Foggini, Masanori Umeda for Edra, Marco Lavit, Patrick Norguet, Marcello Ziliani for Ethimo, Mario Bellini, Piero Lissoni, Patricia Urquiola, Tokujin Yoshioka for Glas Italia, Ron Arad, Tord Boontje, Sebastian Herkner, Marc Thorpe for Moroso, Brodie Neill for Riva 1920, which are the companies that have been alongside Casa Italia for several years. To these were added: Antii Kotilainer and Metrica for Arper, Monica Armani, Mario Bellini, Antonio Citterio, Piero Lissoni, Gaetano Pesce, Patricia Urquiola for B&B Italia, Michael Anastassiades, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, Piero Lissoni, Jasper Morrison, Barber & Osgerby, Marcel Wanders for Flos, Impatia, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Mutina, De Pas - D’Urbino - Lomazzi, Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio for Poltronova, Formafantasma, Nava+Arosio for Rubelli.



Opera di Francesco Iodice, ph. CONI

The protagonists of the artistic journey, instead, are the works of 19 leading artists of contemporary Italian art - Vincenzo Agnetti, Marco Bernardi, Giovanni Bonotto, Sergio Breviario, Claire Fontaine, Paolo Delle Monache, Alberto Di Fabio, Agostino Iacurci, Francesco Jodice, Margherita Moscardini, Matteo Nasini, Gabriele Picco, Julie Polidoro, Riccardo Previdi, Edoardo Tresoldi, Marinella Senatore, Stalker, Patrick Tuttofuoco, Fabio Viale.

Access methods, by reservation, exclusively online: casaitalia.sport