{"id":2137,"date":"2025-07-23T12:29:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T11:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/work.katleenarthen.com\/?post_type=dt_portfolio&#038;p=2137"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:07:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:07:59","slug":"alchimia","status":"publish","type":"dt_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/work.katleenarthen.com\/?dt_portfolio=alchimia","title":{"rendered":"Alchimia"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2137\" class=\"elementor elementor-2137\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-19e45902 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"19e45902\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-41b988aa e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"41b988aa\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-65f1f15e e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"65f1f15e\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-230749f8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"230749f8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"data1\">Scenography<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55f9e56d elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"55f9e56d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Alchimia<br> The Revolution of Italian Design<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71b14b1 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71b14b1\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Broehan Museum Berlin<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-78398af elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"78398af\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Studio Alchimia was founded in 1976. It is the first major retrospective of this movement, which was so important for the 20th century and brought together the most important Italian designers of the 1970s and 80s, including Alessandro Guerriero, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Andrea Branzi, Lapo Binazzi, Cinzia Ruggieri, Ana Gili, and others.<\/p><p>The 1968 movement in Italy was affected by design. A whole series of designer groups such as Archizoom and Superstudio developed in rapid succession in the second half of the 1960s. The Alchimia group, founded in Milan in 1976, brought the different approaches of the 1960s to perfection and to great international success.<\/p><p>Alchimia dared to take the logical step by exploring design beyond industrial production; the life itself was to become a Gesamtkunstwerk. With its designs, Alchimia propagated a counter-reality, another vision for the world. 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