Molto BelloIcons of Modern Italian Design

Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design tells the remarkable story of how, through the marriage of Italy’s rich craft tradition, technological and industrial advances and a capacity for creativity, experimentation and invention, Italian design became admired throughout the world.

This English-Italian education resource introduces key ideas, design concepts and innovations in twentieth-century Italian design, using objects from the exhibition.

Provided in this resource is curatorial excerpts from the Molto Bello: Icons of Modern Italian Design catalogue, which has been provided to give students an overview of the exhibition themes.

This resource showcases case studies of key objects in the exhibition from different periods, along with questions about significant factors that make Italian design unique. Heide has collaborated with CO.AS.IT. to provide Italian translations of the case studies and questions for students, to support Italian language students.

These discussion questions are intended to be used in the museum and continued back in the classroom.

Engaging activities are provided for teachers to encourage students to explore the design process and the role of a designer, including the different factors which influence and inform design choices.