As of this September, Bosco, Agape’s headquarters and showroom in the hills of the Mincio Park, not far from Mantua, has a new exhibition space. It is the Barchessa, once a rural warehouse for tools and seeds. Today it has been rethought, also in anticipation of a hospitality function, and for the moment it is a new space that houses, in a special setting, open to the landscape, the Agape and Agapecasa collections, which reissues with philological attention some of the furniture designed by Angelo Mangiarotti.
The layout, curated by Agape Studio, proposes the idea of a bathroom that becomes a kind of multifunctional living room, intimate and protected. Two generously proportioned bathrooms, a sleeping area and a large terrace, connected to each other, offer a fluid experience between inside and outside, architecture and nature. The partitioning system, designed by Castiglia Associati and engineered by Vismaravetro, traces and organizes the space by defining shower and sanitary areas, private spaces protected by the opaque finish of the glass panels.
The works – in addition to the aforementioned Mangiarotti – are by Benedini Associati, Patricia Urquiola, Diego Vencato and Marco Merendi, Marco Carini and Studio MK27. The building is surrounded by a terrace, a space for relaxation where the dialogue between nature and design becomes an immersive experience.
