Backgammon table

MANIFESTO
The game is an oasis, one of our existential dimensions. 
It’s a meeting space among friends, lovers, strangers, even of distant cultures.
The game reminds us that we are human,  made of desires, of bodies and emotions. 
It’s a space of expression: through the game you reveal yourself.
The game is between heart and mind, between chaos and risk.
The game is with yourself.
The game always surprises.
The game is mystery.

Backgamon game hand-made with watercolor and acrylic on recyclable paper.

Valeria Molinari (Milan, 1994) She is an architect and artist.

 She graduated in 2020 from the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, Switzerland, with Yvonne Farrel and Shelley McNamara (Grafton Architects Pritzker Prize 2020).
 She punctuated her academic career with stays abroad that shaped her professionally: in New Zealand, Japan, Lausanne (at the École Polytechnique Fédérale) and in Berlin, where she worked for eleven months at Francis Kéré Architecture Office (Pritzker Price 2022).

 In 2021 she came back to Milan, where she was born and she continued her career with the Backgammon Beauty project, which focuses on the dimensions of play and art, both existential dimensions for our well-being.
 In October 2022 she became one of the authors of the Dilmos gallery.
 In September 2023 she organized the First Mediterranean Backgammon Tournament in Filicudi. 
The tournament was the first occasion to explore the dimension of playing.
 In January 2024 she organized three Backgammon Beauty night at the club Ronin in Milan.
 In April she partecipates at Milano Design Week 
She is now working for an installation in Stockholm for the Backgammon World Championship that will happen in July, and for the organisation of Tournament of the Mediterranean, in Filicudi, Sicily.