Milan’s historic artistic foundry, Battaglia, collaborates with important artists, closely guarding the casts used for their work. For the exhibition ‘Bronzification’, art director Francesco Faccin designed a series of bronze furnishings, inaugurating a new, equal partnership between artists and foundries that Faccin defined with an oxymoron: “third-party editor”. The designer stated, “In 2014, I was invited by Battaglia to ideate a project that could find new uses of bronze and lost-wax casting. We wanted to reach and attract growing sectors, like design-art. As Battaglia’s art director, I focused on a diverse modus operandi between designer and foundry, in order to undermine the co-dependent logic that governs designer, manufacturer and gallery owner”.