Studiolo Crispolti. La Libreria Scultura di Fausto Maria Franchi

The bookcase-sculpture by Fausto Maria Franchi runs all the way around a pentagonal room of about 18 m2 in the apartment of the historian and critic of contemporary art Enrico Crispolti in Rome. Known among other things for his studies on Futurism, Art Informel, Pop Art and Environmental Art, Crispolti is also the author of the catalogues raisonnés of the works of Lucio Fontana and Renato Guttuso. Franchi designed and created the piece, which constitutes his first environmental work on an architectural scale, on site, developing it day by day like an ancient craftsman. The result is a unique item inseparably linked both to its location and to the Italian tradition of the study as a place of silence, reflection, thought and knowledge enhanced by the presence of art, a place where the client's wishes take original and communicative shape through the artist. The playful, light-hearted, neo-Baroque bookcase is made of marine plywood and dedicated to its creator's eldest son, Valerio, now resident in the United States.