Edoardo Gellner. Interni-Interiors

The long career of Edoardo Gellner - covering more than three quarters of a century - has been very well described over the last five years by books, exhibitions and catalogues in Italy and the transalpine countries, where his work is undoubtedly better known and appreciated than in his homeland.
This book offers an analysis of the cultural stimuli that may have influenced the young interior designer in the decade of work that preceded his architectural studies and that, plausibly, allowed him to come unscathed - unlike many of his colleagues - through the overthrow of the principles on which the rules and the very concepts of furniture and interior design had been based during the passage from handicrafts to industrial production.
In the most delicate phase of this process, Gellner, with the support of clients and executors, made such a contribution to innovation that today, half a century later, "his mass-produced furniture has been a mainstay in the faithful restoration of the Hotel Boite and still renders functional the 260 independent villas" of the village of Corte di Cadore. There are few comparable cases.

A historian of architecture from the Turinese school of Paolo Verzone, Marco Pozzetto (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1925) taught at the faculty of architecture in Turin and the faculty of engineering of Trieste until 1997. He has carried out research into the architecture that was produced in much of Central Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries, neglected following the division of the continent in 1945. His work as a historian has earned him such prestigious awards as the Plecnik Medal of the city of Ljubljana in 1975, the Prechtl Medal of the Technical University of Vienna in 1985 and the Pardes International Prize, City of Palermo, historical section, in 1988. Pozzetto is one of the few architects to have received an honorary degree.
Michele Merlo (Cortina d'Ampezzo, 1970) graduated in architecture from Florence University with a thesis on the historical aspects of the village of Corte di Cadore and the possibilities of reutilizing it. Since 1995 he has collaborated with the architect Edoardo Gellner, for whom he has carried out research into traditional Alpine architecture and undertaken the partial reorganization of the studio's archives.