Bar Craja di Luciano Baldessari. Design totale per un interno milanese (da Rovereto a Berlino).

The contribution aims to highlight the personal connections with the European avant-garde artistic movements that led Luciano Baldessari (Rovereto, 1896 – Milan, 1982) to create one of the first rationalist interiors in Milan: the Bar Craja. This project, for which Baldessari invited young architects Luigi Figini and Gino Pollini, as well as artists Fausto Melotti and Marcello Nizzoli to collaborate, is a work of total design. From the definition of the space to the design of all the furnishings, and even the creation of artworks, it is the tangible result of the experiences Baldessari gained at the Futurist Circle of Rovereto (1913-1915), in Vienna (1916), and in Weimar-era Berlin, where he was closely involved with the expressionist environment of cinema, theater, and avant-garde architecture (1923-1926). The Bar Craja was dismantled in 1964. As part of a master's thesis in Interior Design (School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, supervisor Prof. Graziella Leyla Ciagà), a 3D reconstruction was created based on thorough historical and archival research, which allowed the interiors to be recreated in a digital format.