Urban inventory: the iconic benches of Milan

Feb 22, 2020 532

BY: Bianca Pichler

In recent decades, the city of Milan has grown in terms of public and private investment. A certain flexibility granted to large real estate investors has, in return, guaranteed the birth of new services for the city and the public space generated by these urban transformations is necessarily an expression of this pluralism.

To the historical pieces of the city, from Enzo Mari’s Panettone designed for the city hall in the 1980s as a dissuader but often used to sit in case of lack of benches, to the classic wooden seat Doussie, up to those “monuments” as the fountain dedicated to Sandro Pertini by Aldo Rossi or Music storage and sitting by Armand Pierre Fernández in Parco Sempione. To these new objects that inhabit the public space were added and contribute to a new urban image.

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