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“LIBERAMENSA” is on AIT, Germany, June 2017
“[…] The fact that social commitment can also start right outside one’s front door and need not inevitably contrast with daily routines was recently proved by Turin-based architects Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa with their support of the Liberamensa project.”
“QUADERNI DESIGN” | Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa on interior, exhibit, architecture, design
“The success in awards and publications on national and international magazines attests the quality and originality of the projects by Marcante-Testa in the panorama of contemporary design and their refined research for an “Italian way” to rediscover different values and attentions, ethics, beauty, style, society.” …
A TALK IN ROME: “Interno d’autore”
“INTERNO D’AUTORE: the pursuit of comfort between design and psycho-emotional needs” with Andrea Marcante e Adelaide Testa Monday, March 27, h. 4-8 p.m. Casa dell’Architettura Piazza Manfredo Fanti 47, Roma
LIBERAMENSA: special thanks to the media!
“Design enters the prison” We would like to express our gratitude to all the media who, through an excellent press coverage, contributed to the success of restaurant LIBERAMENSA! Andrea Marcante e Adelaide Testa Elle Decor Italia – n° 11 – Novembre 2016 “Un ristorante fuori dal comune che inaugura un nuovo modello sociale.” […] L’ispirazione e la…
Liberamensa on Elle Decor Italia, November 2016
“An unusual restaurant that inaugurates a new social model. Inauguration of Liberamensa, designed by Marcante-Testa in the former Vallette prison in Turin” photos by Marcello Clerico — words by Valentina Raggi Not just any restaurant. We are talking about Italy’s first socially useful interior design project, with low costs thanks to strong entrepreneurial solidarity. We are at Liberamensa…
LIBERAMENSA – “Design enters the prison”
The new Liberamensa Restaurant in Casa Circondariale Lorusso e Cutugno (former Carcere delle Vallette in Turin) is almost completed. The designers, Andrea Marcante and Adelaide Testa (UdA Architects), are pro bono promoters of the initiative that aims – through concrete social engagement – to introduce interior architecture in a “weak” place par excellence: a prison. Liberamensa involves prison…