Since 1927, the 1000 Miglia race has seen fleets of vibrant classic automobiles velocity throughout the rolling Italian countryside, spending a whole week driving to Rome and again. It historically begins within the lovely metropolis of Brescia in Lombardy, only a stone’s throw away from the Thirteenth-century Palazzo Monti, a cultural centre which has collaborated with Dutch designer and Sabine Marcelis to supply the race’s newest trophies and medals.
Mille Miglia 2024 trophy by Sabine Marcelis
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The brand new cups and medals for the traditional Mille Miglia race have been designed by Marcelis as a part of an artists’ residency at Palazzo Monti, underneath the curation of Edoardo Monti, a collector and curator from close by Bergamo who launched the residency programme in 2017. House to a collection of workshops and studios, the palazzo has welcomed over 250 artists from 50 totally different nations since, and just lately hosted a pop-up lodge by Danish model Vipp and artwork installations organised by Copenhagen studio Frama.
Marcelis’ trophy and medal designs have been created for the forty second version of the 1000 Miglia race – the unique happened 24 occasions between 1927 to 1957, and since 1977 has been revived repeatedly (with solely autos produced no later than 1957 allowed to participate). It’s the third consecutive 12 months Marcelis, Wallpaper* 2020 Designer of the Yr, has collaborated with Monti and the traditional race organisers.
(Picture credit score: Courtesy Palazzo Monti and Sabine Marcelis)
Created in her studio in Rotterdam, the brand new cup is impressed by ‘the long-lasting shapes of the trophies of the primary editions and celebrates the deep and lasting bond between pilot and co-pilot.’ It’s made up of two components, ‘every a logo of the 2 protagonists: a singular object when separated, however full solely when united.’
The medals, awarded to the primary 30 automobiles categorised, characteristic ‘a crimson background layer representing the race itinerary and a clear floor layer exhibiting the order of arrival, the race brand and the dates’. Purple is a key color of the race – its image, the freccia rossa or crimson arrow, adorned the Venini glass trophies Marc Newson designed for the 2018-2021 races, which equally performed with transparency and light-weight.
(Picture credit score: Courtesy Palazzo Monti and Sabine Marcelis)
Gentle provides Marcelis’ translucent resin creations a dynamic look that goals to recall the velocity of the automobiles. ‘The transparency of the supplies, generally crystalline, different occasions milky, illuminates the sides of the cups and medals, culminating in a riot of adjusting colors that give the crimson of the 1000 Miglia distinctive nuances,’ write long-term collaborators Marcelis and Monti.
Sabine Marcelis’ sculptures for 1000 Miglia 2023
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The pair met in 2018, throughout a creative residency at Palazzo Monti with the Etage Initiatives gallery. Since then they’ve labored collectively on quite a few tasks, together with an set up on the Lodge de la Ville in Rome. Their different 1000 Miglia creations embrace extra cups and medals but additionally a 2023 large-scale set up that reinterpreted eight components of the automobile, equivalent to tyres, steering wheel and shock absorbers, on the event of Brescia and Bergamo Capital of Tradition.
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