While nightlife remains a distant dream, we’re taking the opportunity to celebrate one of the best night club interiors we’ve seen. This vision in acid pink and plastic is the Discoteca Il Grifoncino in Bozen, Italy—a 1968 collaboration between the designers Cesare Maria Casati and Emanuele Ponzio, and the artist Gino Marotta. The trio dreamed up a transparent landscape within the club’s confines, surrounded by abstract clouds and bushes by Marotta. The design’s many acrylic elements—in fuchsia, green, blue and purple—would “light up in response to the rhythm of the music”, according to the Neues Museum’s exhibition Club Culture. An exercise in indoor escapism.
