Ferro e Fuoco Cabinet

Raffaello Biagetti, born in Santarcangelo di Romagna in 1940, was a designer, researcher, and curator who approached design as a cultural practice, a living archive, and a tool for knowledge. In 1968, he founded Design Club in Ravenna, a space for research and dialogue between design, collections, and experimentation. This vision came to full fruition in 1988 with the establishment of the Museum of Contemporary Furniture, conceived to narrate the evolution of Italian and international industrial design. The collection, spanning 1880 to 1980, reflects an approach where architecture, exhibition, and design interact: from Piero Castiglioni’s theatrical scenography to Gae Aulenti’s platforms, up to the expansion designed by Ettore Sottsass with Johanna Grawunder. With the opening of Futurarium in the early 1990s, Biagetti strengthened the museum’s educational dimension, transforming it into a permanent laboratory for dialogue among designers, students, and artisans. His work stands as a continuous bridge between design, education, and memory, connecting generations, languages, and practices within the design field.