art. 905 In silver color metal, with base in perforated metal plate

and handle in silver color wood, feet in silver color MDF.

Internal prism of mirrors, rotating on ball bearings.

60 x 60 x 105 cm

The word “piazza” (town square) is used to designate the typical Italian place that symbolically

represents encounters and being part of and creating a community. The piazza is a place of

meetings, exchanges, pauses, and discoveries, a place where there may be many people

or just a few, where you can spend time in groups or separate yourself from them.

It’s an inviting space, a space of daily transits and pauses, and lends itself to assemblies

of adults and children, becoming the setting and stage for parties, theatrical productions,

and cultural initiatives.

The piazza is therefore characterized by a sort of pulsing rhythm, alternately full and

empty, quiet and noisy, where children can encounter many opportunities for meeting,

playing, creating stories, making discoveries, dressing up in fabrics, colors and lights,

creating a theater, playing with shadows, reflecting, multiplying and modifying their own

image. It’s a multipurpose space even though it is highly characterized in its cultural and

educational aspects.

This kaleidoscope can be personalized: objects

placed inside by means of a hatch door on the front

appear to be multiplied.

Children and teachers choose what to put inside

and watch it be transformed by the kaleidoscope’s

prism of mirrors.

The size of the kaleidoscope, aside from offering

the possibility of viewing large objects, is such

that children can stand up to use it. It thus becomes

an element in the environment to be used in passing,

to stop a moment, where mysterious objects

can be left to be found by friends, or to discover,