Writer ARIADNA FERNÁNDEZ
Last Saturday, May 2, the Prada Group inaugurated a new space for its Foundation in Milan. Project architect Rem Koolhaas, of the architectural firm OMA, has designed the space in a 19,000 square metre, century-old building, of which 11,000 square metres will be used for future exhibitions of contemporary art, architecture, film and philosophy. The building, a former distillery dating from the 1910s, includes seven buildings that already belonged to the complex and three new ones.
The Prada Foundation aims to support contemporary art with the creation of a museum in Milan, the capital of fashion and design. The designer Miuccia Prada and her husband, group CEO Patrizio Bertelli, created the Prada Foundation in 1993, with the aim of organising exhibitions and bringing culture, fashion and design to the world.
The museum will also have a children’s area, a cinema and a bar, a recreation of the Milanese cafés of the 1950s created by the American film director Wes Anderson.
From 9 May this year it will be open to the public seven days a week at a general admission price of 10 euros.
