Parallel to the Fedeli Restauri designs and builds custom furniture and furnishings (modern or ancient) in wood, stone, marble, stucco, terracotta, bronze etc.
All products faithful are unique pieces made with traditional craft techniques (wood inlay, carving, painting, gilding, silvering, marble or gemstone jewelry, pill, etc.) and are drawn from ancient models or reinvented in the style you want.
Fedeli Restauri has created furniture in collaboration with some of the most distinguished architects and designers of this century: Franca Helg, Franco Albini, Alessandro Mendini and Ettore Sottsass. The latter has resulted in important collections.
SOTTSASS FEDELI COLLECTION
Ettore Sottsass: 28 projects for the intarsias of Andrea Fedeli
The extraordinary creative collaboration between Ettore Sottsass and Andrea Fedeli was founded in 1999 by a historical collection of inlaid furniture: 28 pieces designed by the inexhaustible creativity of designers and with the ancient technique of wood inlay, the Restorer and cabinetmaker. In this collection the creativity of the eclectic designer joins tradition and technical and operational skills that Andrea Fedeli has always put to good use in the context of the restoration of works of art and in particular of the artifacts wood of the Florentine Renaissance.
Ettore Sottsass (1917-2007) is considered one of the most important architects and designers of all time. Group Member MAC (concrete art movement – 1948) and the Group's founder MAMPHIS (1981), worked for over 30 years with the company Olivetti for which designs become part of the history of furniture design.
Winner of numerous awards and honors, have been dedicated to him many personal exhibitions: Italy: the new domestic landscape, organized in 1972 at the Moma in New York, the exhibitions of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1994 and 2003), the Centre for contemporary art contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato (1999), of the Suntort Museum in Osaka (2000), the Museum of decorative arts in Cologne (2004) and the Mart in Rovereto (2005).
His works are kept in the most important museums in the world.
Exhibitions
MENDINI-FEDELI COLLECTION
I sei fedeli, Eight
The sei fedeli are six inlaid and enameled furniture designed by Alessandro Mendini to be specially made by Fedeli Restauri with the ancient technique of wooden marquetry. The collaboration between Mendini and Fedeli Restauri also leads to the creation of Eight (inlaid totem), exhibited in 2013 in Geneva, Milan, Hong Kong, Parig, at the Arts & Crafts & Design exhibition organized by the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain in Paris and from the Cologni Foundation of the Art Professions in Milan with the contribution of Vacheron Constantin, the oldest Genevan watchmaking fashion house.
Alessandro Mendini (1931 - 2019) is considered one of the most important architects and designers in the world. A member of the Alchimia group, since the end of the seventies he has been one of the renewers of Italian design. He creates objects, furniture, environments, paintings, installations, architecture all over the world and collaborates with international companies such as Alessi, Bisazza, Philips, Cartier, Swatch, Hermés, Venini, for which he designs artifacts that have entered the history of design. He is an honorary member of the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem and is an honorary professor at the Academic Council of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in China. In 1979 and 1981 he was awarded the Golden Compass for design, the honorary degree at the Polytechnic of Milan and the Ecole normale supérieure de Cachan in France. He was named Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres in France, was awarded the Architectural League of New York and the European Prize for Architecture Awards in 2014. Personal exhibitions were dedicated to him all over the world and his furniture is exhibited in the most prestigious museums.
