For Salone del Mobile 2022, SIZED collaborated with architect and designer Antonio Forteleoni on a weeklong installation spanning the street-facing windows of Forteleoni’s Milan studio. On view continuously for 168 hours, the installation shifted its illumination from dusk to dawn, inviting visitors to engage with the work in an ongoing rhythm of light, material, and form.
The exhibition featured seven new works — four lamps, a table, a vase, and a stool — all created from single sheets of hot-dip galvanized steel and produced entirely in Sardinia. Using a process of formal subtraction and reassembly, Forteleoni merged prehistoric symbolism with architectural clarity, referencing the silhouettes of Nuragic Sardinian sculptures while imagining their future iterations.
His use of galvanized steel paid homage to the work of Jacques Couelle, whose sculptural homes punctuate the Sardinian coast, as well as Isamu Noguchi, whose final body of work in Los Angeles explored similar materials and finishes. After fabrication, each piece was patinated with water from the Mediterranean Sea — grounding the process in Forteleoni’s native landscape.
The installation operated as a quiet architectural gesture — one that folded regional memory, material experimentation, and personal lineage into a shared, public-facing format.
