Sergio Buttiglieri, Style Director for Sanlorenzo was awarded the ‘Premio Montale Fuori di Casa‘ for the Montal/Art for Design Section.
Of Sergio Buttiglieri, Adriana Beverini, President of the Award, writes that “he is a man of culture, a refined intellectual who moves with measure and elegance both in the world of design and boating, and in the press as a journalist and cultural critic”.
With regard to his very important role at Sanlorenzo, he acknowledges his taste for refined design, which he strengthened during the twenty years in which, from 1986 to 2006, he worked for Driade, a company that has given a great deal to Italian-made products. Then, in 2006, there he was, literally, in the nautical world, at Sanlorenzo. Buttiglieri, also thanks to his personal knowledge of great architects and designers, derived from his previous work with Enrico Astori, the founder of Driade, was immediately able to connect two seemingly distant worlds, that of the nautical world and that of contemporary interior design for the home.
The President of the Prize writes: Without doubt, all this would be enough to explain the reason for the award, but what interested us so much in Buttiglieri that we awarded him the Prize is his ‘second profession’, a definition with which Montale called his commitment as a journalist and literary critic. Some reviews of art exhibitions, theatre performances, operas, some interviews carried out over the years by Buttiglieri with various people from these different worlds, seem to be inspired – for a certain measure, for the elegance, the profound but never exhibited knowledge of the subject matter – by certain pages by Eugenio Montale published in ‘Prime alla Scala’ or in ‘Fuori di casa‘.
