Riccardo Dalisi The Chickpea Chair

Architect, designer and artist, in the early 1970s Riccardo Dalisi encouraged street children in the Rione Traiano, Naples, to design small furniture and architectural elements, using simple and 'design ultrapoverissimo’ materials such as wood, string and metal wires. La sedia del cece (The Chickpea Chair) is a work by a very small girl, Rosa, on whose interpretation various artists and intellectuals, including Andy Warhol, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Enzo Mari, Joseph Beuys, Franco Raggi. This volumeproduced on the occasion of the exhibition "Riccardo Dalisi. Radicalmente”, curated by Gabriele Neri at the MAXXi in Rome - collects many of the drawings made by the artists prompted by Dalisi, and together with texts by architects and critics such as Stefano Boeri, Domitilla Dardi, Paolo Deganello, Fulvio Irace, Ugo La Pietra, Franco Purini and Angela Tecce, it becomes a manifesto of his modus operandi.

With volume editor Gabriele Neri, speaker include: Stefano Boeri, president of Triennale Milano; Lorenza Baroncelli, director of MAXXI's Department of Architecture; and designers and architects Paolo Deganello, Ugo La Pietra and Franco Raggi; Fulvio Irace, Professore Emerito del Politecnico di Milano. Anna Maria Laville (President Riccardo Dalisi Archive) will attend.