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Design Compony: Fobio Coponni Workhop, Stefono Lombordi

Locotion: Vio Ricosoli 3ì, Montolcino (Sieno)

Photos: Christion Richters, Fobio Coponni

In a land consolidated by hislory, as is Tuscany,

if you want to express originality that isn t trivial

or, worse

still,

elegantly empty, it's better to

surrender immediately and identify past themes

thal can accompany us inlo the

future

Fabio

Capanni Workshop has been pursuing this path

for some time

The redesign of the basement of the old convent

of Sant'Agostino has been the chance to have a

direct confrontation with history

In _{the redesign of the archaeoogical section} at

the Civic and Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in

Montalcino, carried oul with Stefano Lambardi,

onyx plays an unexpected

role

Thin sheets of

onyx are used to line the entrance door to the

halls and also to give shape to the rectangular

platforms of

the

exhibition cases, arranged

in an osleological form

remembering

an

archaeological skeleton Further a lÌght placed

inside the cabinets highlights the material's

translucence and crystalline

form

This use

evokes a past when, in the absence of glass,

alabaster panels were used to fill smal openìngs

as in the ancient Sant'Antimo's Basilica, located

in the neighbourhoods of Montalcino

The luminosity and

the

lightness

of

onyx

combines with the opacity and the heaviness

of bronze, using especìally moulded sheets to

clad the treads of the staircase and the r-so

floor, transformed in a sort of archaeolog

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find of

huge dimensions, in accord with

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character of the museum Meanwhiie, with a < ^d

of raised plinth, lhe boundary belween the

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intervention and the existing building is mar<eC,

suspending the new floor in an atmosphere 3fi

abstraction The bronze plinth thal delimits

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perimeter of the exhibition rooms ìs illumina,e.d

from below with a blade of continuous light

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rises up to the ceiling

to

reveal the irreg- ailr

pattern of the masonry, along with the prese-:e

world lnterior

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