Fabriano – “The signs of the Antiche Cartiere Fabrianesi”, the manuscript album by Augusto Zonghi edited by Livia Faggioni and published in 2021 by the Fedrigoni Fabriano Foundation, was awarded the Honorable Mention during the ceremony which yesterday afternoon saw awards at the ADI Design Museum in Milan the winners of the prestigious Compasso d’Oro ADI 2024, now in its seventieth edition.
In fact, just over a century after the death of the famous Fabriano filigrenologist, the Fedrigoni Fabriano Foundation has decided to print in 2021 the first edition of the Album manuscript between 1882 and 1884, still today a point of reference for historians, paleographers and philologists in the dating of documents sine data et loco, thanks to the 1,887 “signs” (watermarks) ordered in an iconic and chronological sense and reproduced “naturally”.
The volume – whose editorial format was curated by Simone Scimmi Design Studio – is accompanied by an Italian-English critical edition, the “Notes to the Album”, with the international testimony of Sylvia Rodgers Albro, Senior Paper Conservator of the Library of Congress in Washington (USA), and the researcher Elena Santilli.
The awarded objects and those that obtained the Honorable Mention will become part of the Compasso d’Oro Collection, permanently exhibited at the ADI Design Museum. Furthermore, an exhibition will be set up which will remain open until 16 September and will present to the public a selection of 174 of the products of this edition.
Yesterday, 20 Compasso d’Oro awards were awarded, in addition to the Compassi d’Oro for lifetime achievement and 39 honorable mentions. All the artefacts that participated in the competition were included in the pre-selections of the ADI Design Index 2022-2023 and were proposed to an international jury composed of Maria Cristina Didero, independent author and curator; Luciano Galimberti, designer and president of ADI; Francisco Gómez Paz, designer; Renata Cristina Mazzantini, director of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome; Toshiyuki Kita, designer and Ambassador of the Italian Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.
Born in 1954 from an idea by Gio Ponti, the Compasso d’Oro aims first and foremost to enhance the quality of the projects: in seventy years of history, over 370 awards have been assigned which gave rise to a historic collection recognized in 2004 by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage as “an asset of exceptional artistic and historical interest”. A quality that has changed over the decades, following the evolution of culture and society, but which remains the point of reference for the award.
