Giuseppe Amato is an artist, specialized in home interiors, working spaces and boutique stores.

Unexpected Homes

Unexpected Homes is a daydream about living and working spaces. They are wooden architectures, unreal but feasible, born from the interaction between a state of mind and an imaginary place.

Nautoscopio

Nautoscopio is a sea shelter anchored to the rocky cliffs. By day it frames the sea while at night it turns towards the erupting volcano. Under a stormy sea it raises itself onto its mainmast. The prototype has been made and is installed on the waterfront in Palermo, Sicily.

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Prototype

Torre Maestra

Torre Maestra is a stilted wooden dwelling in a marshy land. It is imagined as a pre-existing structure, with two diaphanous inside spaces, and a long brise-soleil cutting the panorama horizontally.

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Trinidad

Trinidad is a metaphysical vision of a stranded shipwreck, resurfed from the desert sands. It is the dismantled section of a huge keel with its mast step, appearing from a distance like a large wooden rose window. The main mast is underground within the belly of the ship.

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Interiors

Caruso flagship store - 45, East 58th St, New York

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Caruso flagship store - Via Gesù 4, Milano

Il negozio Caruso è un esempio del mio lavoro di inventore e progettista. C’è un modello, o meglio un metodo che, a differenza dell’opera d’arte pura, utilizzo per trasformare e interpretare gli spazi domestici o commerciali su commissione. L’ho chiamato Dream&Draft ed è un metodo di proiezione e trasposizione. Gli spazi domestici come quelli commerciali sono luoghi dove si avvicendano storie ed emozioni e dunque essi vanno concepiti partendo dal presupposto che chi lo vive avrà modo di condividerlo con altre persone. Scatta così la relazione tra le persone la comunicazione avviene naturalmente attraverso il dispiegamento delle emozioni e dei sentimenti e delle emozioni.

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The Flying-Home, Milan

Set up the ping-pong net on one of the industrial-style tables. Wheel it aside to lower down a suspended bed, wrapped in steel, from an intricately beamed wooden ceiling.

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The Encampment house, Milan

Il senso della Encampment house, è di ospitare all’interno uno studio/abitazione di Milano uno spazio interiore dentro lo spazio di lavoro. Lo spazio dentro lo spazio. Ho espresso il concetto di abitare come quella capacità di stare al mondo, in particolare dentro e fuori dal proprio mondo.

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Aveda Flagship store, Milan

The idea of the Aveda flagship store in Milan came from The Ship of Fools, the sketches by Albrecht Dürer based on the novel of Sebastian Brant. Interpreting the vision of Brant I dimantled a boat in three parts. The Hull, the Mast, the Sail...

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Philobiblon, bibliographic studio, Milan

Philobiblon è uno studio bibliografico di libri rari a Milano, che sono stato chiamato a interpretare allestendone gli spazi. "Altare e contraltare" è il titolo del mio allestimento permanente (non mi piace chiamarlo installazione): una cappella dove la funzione che ha il libro di condurre l’uomo, attraverso una sequenza di inginocchiatoi, verso la trascendenza è infamata dalla presenza imponente di una gabbia metallica in alto, posta in luogo del crocefisso, che contiene i libri all’indice o quel che ne resta. Un piccolo monumento alla miseria dell’uomo contrapposta alla grandezza della sua più grande invenzione: il libro.

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Spaces

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Tableaux vivant

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Formule orgiastiche

Gold, silver, ink on paper

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Formule orgiastiche

Ink, gold, silver on wood

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Biography

Giuseppe Amato was born in Palermo, Sicily, 1970. Starting as a biologist specializing in whales behavior at the University of Pavia, Giuseppe later has learned the art of design from his life mentor Sory Yanagi in Japan.

His works were presented at ICFF in New York ADC, Isetan Department Store Gallery in Tokyo, Hankyu Gallery, Osaka, the 11th Istanbul Biennial and Moleskine Detour at the Museum Santral Istanbul and the Moma Design Store in Tokyo.

The Unexpected Homes series, dwellings conceived as installations of Public Art, started with the prototype Nautoscopio. After its presentation at the Green Energy Design Exhibition curated by Interni Magazine, with Philippe Stark, Toyo Ito, Michele De Lucchi and Ron Arad (model scale 1:5), his 36-tons visionary construction has been constructed in Palermo's harbour in 2009, becoming today one of the city's symbols.

Chosen sketches of the Nautoscopio are published in the volume curated by Moleskine, Sotheby's and FAI La mano del Designer, 460 autografed drawings by 150 of the most prominent contemporary designers.

In 2010 Giuseppe Amato had partecipated at 12a Biennale Internazionale di Architettura, in Venice, at Mapping Contemporary Venice, with Moleskine and VIU, Venice International University. In 2019 Giuseppe Amato had partecipated at FutuRuins, an art exhibition at Fortuny Palace in Venice, with other works from Venetian Civic Museums and the State Hermitage Museum.

Giuseppe Amato lives and works primary in Milan, where his studio specializes in interior design of selected private houses, restaurants, and boutique stores.

Giuseppe Amato also worked and collaborated with Institutions and Companies, like: Aveda, Branca, Brioni, Caruso, FAI, Fastweb, Hankyu, ICFF, Isetan, Moleskine, Sotheby's, Vibram.