From July 2026, the Italian Cultural Institute in London has a new home. Italy House, inaugurated in October 2025, houses the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Trade Agency. It is located near Buckingham Palace, in the political and institutional heart of the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
Italy House brings together all the components of Sistema Italia. It is a showcase for Italy, bringing together its economic, cultural, artistic and social dimensions under one roof. It is the result of a collaborative effort between the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute, the Italian Trade Agency, leading Italian design and furniture companies, and Italian and British museums. It is a space that is open to everyone: institutional representatives, entrepreneurs, citizens, students, academics, scientists, athletes, journalists, and representatives of the arts and cultural sectors.<\/p>\n
Numerous Italian companies contributed to the design, including Molteni&C, Unifor, Cassina, Tecno, Poltrona Frau, Porro, De Padova, Saporiti Italia, Citterio, Alias, Rubelli, Flos, Alpi, Listone Giordano, Marsotto, Glas Italia, Olivari, Karakter, Acerbis, Tacchini, Azucena, Giobagnara, CC-Tapis and Robertosport. The coffee areas are fitted out with equipment by two iconic Italian brands, Lavazza and Smeg. The lighting and integrated technology solutions are designed by Flos Architectural, Formafantasma, Unifor, Citterio, Tecno. The audio equipment is by K-Array. The materials and finishings \u2013 including Marsotto travertine, natural woods Rubelli textiles and Alpi surfaces \u2013 reflect continuity between artisinal tradition and contemporary creativity. In the lobby, a mosaic designed by Formafantasma and made by Fantini Mosaici gives a modern interpretation to this this traditional Italian decorative artform.<\/p>\n
The art collection includes works from both public and private collections, with particular attention to dialogue betwee modern and contemporary styles. In the Main Hall a set of works by Paolo Scheggi from the Inter-ena-cubo series (1967-1969) is displayed. In the waiting room and the offices are three works by Pietro Consagra (Controluce, 1998) and a selection of works by Arturo Vermi, including Presenza (1965) and Diario 1 (1986), as well as two works by Tino Stefanoni (Le penne \u2013 16B, 1972; Le borse di gomma \u2013 72B, 1973). In the Giuseppe Verdi room Gianpaolo Pagni\u2018s Grande Storia dell\u2019arte italiana (nn. 1\u20134, 2025) is displayed. The Eugenio Montale Library hosts a tapestry carpet from Superficie 480 (1967) by Giuseppe Capogrossi and the installation Emerging Forms (2025). On the first floor is Color and Light (2024) by Michelangelo Pistoletto, as well as works by Riccardo Patern\u00f2 Castello (Milano, 2012), Tancredi di Carcaci (EBITDA, 2025) and Antony Gormley (Receive II, 2017), as well as Spider Maximus (2020) by Achille Salvagni. There are also loans from the Estorick Collection, with pieces by Zoran Mu\u0161i\u010d, Mario Sironi and Massimo Campigli, and a set of archeological finds provided by the Villa Giulia National Etruscan Museum: funerary urns in travertine, kylikes and amphoras with black figures (Collezione Castellani), an Etruscan vase with a lidded bowl, a loutrophorous, a bronze basin, votive heads, and a polychrome antefix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From July 2026, the Italian Cultural Institute in London has a new home. Italy House, inaugurated in October 2025, houses the Embassy of Italy, the Italian Cultural Institute and the Italian Trade Agency. It is located near Buckingham Palace, in the political and institutional heart of the United Kingdom. Italy House brings together all the […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":59,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25434,"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/94\/revisions\/25434"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiclondra.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}