Laboratorio Dimenticato
A Curious Boy exhibition shown during Milan Design Week 2019 in an old workshop on via Fulcorina.
Client: Jost Unternehmensgruppe
Location: Erlangen-Bruck, Germany
Period: 2016–2018
Gross floor area: 2.200 m²

A Curious Boy exhibition shown during Milan Design Week 2019 in an old workshop on via Fulcorina.
Client: Jost Unternehmensgruppe
Location: Erlangen-Bruck, Germany
Period: 2016–2018
Gross floor area: 2.200 m²
Scientists are continually trying to deduce what exactly occurred in this curious space. Through the analysis of letters, drawings and the objects, it was ultimately determined that a certain gentleman, who called himself Severin Munch-Prokorny, was deeply involved in this project. From the content of these letters and notes, it seems that Severin Munch-Prokorny, severely traumatized after the horrors of World War II, dreamed of a humane and better life on a different and distant planet. To this end, he assembled a group of scientists, designers, engineers and craftsmen to carry out his plan, which suprisingly became a reality. 1955 marked the beginning of the transport of people to the planet MP-4753Y, ascertained to be habitable to humans.
MP-4753Y had all the essentials for people to live, albeit with a very different gravitational force than Earth. For this reason, Severin Munch-Prokorny established this clandestine workshop in Milan that was dedicated to designing and building furniture for the distant planet. The workshop was very creative, with prototypes of all kinds: tables, wardrobes, armchairs, vases, wallpapers, a teleportation room and even sketches for an outer terrestrial cookbook. It seems that the laboratory was suddenly and unexpectedly closed. The objects within remained in perfect condition for many years, only recently unearthed by chance. Nobody knows what happened or why.