Held at the Museo di Castelvecchio in Verona between December 2002 and February 2003, Stile di Caccia was a deeply atmospheric and thoughtfully curated exhibition dedicated to the architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni. Conceived as a spatial narrative rather than a conventional retrospective, the exhibition transformed the museum’s vaulted halls into an evocative journey through the personal universe of one of Italy’s most enigmatic and refined modernists.

The exhibition unfolded within a darkened space, where lighting played a key role in revealing architectural and emotional layers. A central spine of large-scale plywood panels guided visitors through a selection of full-scale reproductions of Caccia Dominioni’s drawings, tracing his unique architectural language and sensitivity to form, proportion, and material.

Running along the side walls, a chronological frieze presented the most iconic buildings by Caccia Dominioni through a powerful photographic sequence by Gabriele Basilico. These images, printed as a continuous horizontal band, created a poetic and uninterrupted dialogue between Caccia’s urban interventions and Basilico’s lens, reinforcing the timeless quality of the architect’s Milanese works.

At the core of the installation stood glass and metal display cases containing original design pieces—chairs, lamps, and objects—retrieved from interiors personally curated by Caccia Dominioni. These “cose da abitare” (“things to live with”) were presented not as isolated design artifacts but as integral expressions of his architectural philosophy, where domestic objects are imbued with memory, narrative, and an acute understanding of space.

Through its immersive staging, Stile di Caccia conveyed Caccia Dominioni’s radical discretion and his quiet revolution of the Italian interior. It revealed an architect who refused the spectacular, yet consistently pursued beauty through coherence, silence, and the poetry of use.