A New Design Museum For NYC?

Milan's Triennale Design Museum To Open Satellite Venue

Last week at the New York City launch party for the Roy Lichtenstein exhibition now on view at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, the Triennale announced its plans to open a New York satellite space this spring called Triennale NYC.

As reported by Mark Rozzo in T-Magazine, Massimo Magliaro (director of RAI International) and Milanese businessman Robert Manzoni have been trying ‘to scope out potential new locations, à la the Guggenheim, around the world’ for some time now, and they have finally decided on the former home of the Museum of Arts and Design on West 53rd Street.

Work is supposedly beginning on the 22,378-square-foot space this week and the design team includes Michele de Lucchi. The four-level facility will devote over half of its total area to exhibitions, which will begin with a show celebrating the works of iconic Italian designer Giò Ponti. But with the Museum of Arts and Design, and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum already on the island, how will the Triennal NYC make its mark? Why in true Italian fashion of course, with an authetic espresso bar/cafe that will stay open until 2 a.m.

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For more information on Triennale NYC please visit www.triennale.it