In October 2015 FENDI inaugurated its new headquarters in the iconic Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, set in the area originally built for the 1942 World’s Fair in Rome.
In the 1930s Guglielmo Ulrich was among those called upon to design furniture for the buildings of this ‘new city’. The Second World War prevented the fair from ever taking place and relegated the commissioned designs to paper. FENDI takes inspiration from Ulrich’s designs to give life to unique design pieces, combining tradition with innovation and expressiveness with poise. Embellished with fine leathers and fabrics, these pieces will ultimately be united with the space of Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana, for which they were initially conceived seven decades ago.
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