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Reggio Emilia, Italy.
2020

    «Fall from grace»
The sunset of an Italian salotto

Team:
Rosita Palladino, 

Institution:
FAUL - Faculdade de Architetura da Universidade de Lisboa 

Advisors:
Ana Vaz Milheiro

Critic:

https://mcmh.eu

Brief:
«Fall from grace» is a documentary that attempts to capture the essence of how European middle-class homes have changed over the past fifty years. The salotto is the symbol of Italian houses, where the pleasantries of bourgeois life are staged.



“The salotto,
symbol of the Italian middle class,
is an untouchable archetype in the ritual of living.

Here time seems crystallised: and it remains embedded in the details.

Antique furniture, found, searched for, inherited and sometimes modified, only shows the society’s best aspect.
Every ornament, painting and crockery is placed as in a mise and scene, that only begins when the first guest crosses the threshold.

What now?


In the 21th century conception of domestic space,
it is not possible to identify a room for temporary use.

And so, time and beauty remain stacked,
under what we no longer want or do not want to see.

One last touching look at the forniture.
And those who have seen…have seen.”