Rosenthal - Arcus vase

Designed by Marcello Morandini in 1983 for the super brand Studioline of Rosenthal. A vase with extremely modern lines, of furniture and usable for cut stem flowers.

Marcello Morandini

Marcello Morandini was born in Mantua on May 15, 1940. He moved to Varese in 1947. He attended the Brera School of Art in Milan, where he also worked as a designer for an industry and as a graphic designer for a professional studio. The first drawings related to his artistic research date back to 1962. In 1964 he began his first three-dimensional works, exhibited in his first solo exhibition in Genoa in 1965, curated by Germano Celant. In 1967 he began the first major exhibitions in Milan, Frankfurt and Cologne. In the same year he was invited to the "IX Biennale" in São Paulo, Brazil.
1987 is also a period of great collaboration with the company Rosenthal of Selb for which he studies the 64-meter facade of the new administrative building. In 2000 he began a collaboration with "Abitare Baleri" in Bergamo, studying a collection of home furniture. In 2003 he taught at the Brera Academy in Milan.
In 2010, he inaugurated his 11-metre sculpture as a symbol of the Europäisches Industriemuseum in Plößberg, a tribute to Philip Rosenthal.
2017 will not have a continuity with the galleries of 2016 but will see the first important exhibition commitment with the Museum MA*GA Gallarate from 11 March to 30 July where he will have the opportunity to officialize his Foundation/ Museum Marcello Morandini. At the beginning of this year he realized an important exhibition at the Scuola Grande della Misericordia in Venice; currently he is in charge of the Fondazione Marcello Morandini, born in 2016, the restructuring of its headquarters in Varese that will also be operational as a museum and the realization of the challenging autobiographical volume/ catalog reasoned.

Rosenthal

 In 1879, returning from an experience in the United States of America, Philipp Rosenthal decided to open a porcelain decoration workshop in Bavaria.
In 1907 the company branded every product with its own name. The following year he bought Thomas, a brand later addressed to a youth audience.
In 1950 his son Philip took on responsibility of the company, which in 1961 inaugurated Rosenthal Studio-Line, a brand related to projects and collaborations with celebrated artists, architects, and designers.
With the inauguration of Studio-Line, starting from 60s started collaborations with Raymond Loewy and Richard Latham (Forma 2000)Tapio Wirkkala (Variation, Century)[], Mario Bellini (Cupola), Luigi Colani (Drop), Walter Gropius (TAC), Bjørn Wiinblad (Magic Flute)] and Timo Sarpaneva (Suomi) began in the 1960s. In 1993 he began his collaboration with Versace, whose Avedon's shot for the advertising campaign with Sylvester Stallone and Claudia Schiffer remains famous. When the designer died, the collaboration continued with his sister Donatella (Les Rêves Byzantins). Meanwhile, other artists and designers participate in the creation of design lines, such as Marcello Morandini, Jasper Morrison (Moon), Patricia Urquiola (Landscape).