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Ivo Pannaggi (1901–1981) was an Italian painter, designer, and architect. Although primarily associated with the Italian Futurist movement, Pannaggi was also heavily influenced by International Constructivism and Neoplasticism. The artist's oeuvre spanned across a wide range of media including painting, collage, graphic design, interior design, architecture, set design, costume design and industrial design.

Early Life
Ivo Pannaggi was born in 1901 in Macerata, a city in the Marche region of Italy. He enrolled at the Scuola di Architettura first in Rome, then in Florence, but did not graduate from the program. As a young artist Pannaggi worked within the Futurist circle centered around the Casa d'Arte Bragaglia in Rome. The exhibition and performance space served as a hub of activity for Futurists in Rome starting in 1918 when it opened. The Casa d'Arte Bragaglia was opened by Anton Giulio Bragaglia and his two brothers and through Pannaggi's connections there became familiar with other artists in the Futurist movement including Filippo Marinetti, Enrico Prampolini, Giacomo Balla, Fortunato Depero as well as Vinicio Paladini who he would later collaborate with to write the "Manifesto dell’Arte Meccanica Futurista" (Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art). Pannaggi's work paintings were first exhibited in the Casa d'Arte Bragaglia in a 1921 show.

In 1922, when Pannaggi was 21, he organized and curated the Esposizione Futurista, Macerata's first Futurist exhibition. In addition to his own work he also displayed the work of his colleagues and contemporaries at the show. The walls of the exhibition were decorated with quotes taken from modern literature.

Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art
In 1922 Pannaggi collaborated with his fellow artist Vinicio Paladini to write the "Manifesto dell’Arte Meccanica Futurista" (Manifesto of Futurist Mechanical Art). The manifesto was significant as it helped to define the aesthetic principles of Futurism in the 1920s. It promoted an aesthetic that drew more directly on machine imagery than earlier generations of Futurist art which largely explored questions of plastic dynamism.

Pannaggi and Paladini were both strongly influenced by Marxism and they used their Manifesto to forward Futurism as a platform for Marxist ideals. The manifesto emphasized the modern man's direct connection to machinery and advocated this connection as the key to bridging the gap between the proletariat and bourgeoise. This did not sit well with the founder of the official Futurist movement, writer and intellectual Filippo Marinetti, whose strong Italian nationalist affiliations led him to disassociate himself with the international communist movement.

Zampini House
As a young man Pannaggi befriended Erso Zampini, a successful industrialist in Macerata. Zampini encouraged Pannaggi in his studies of modern art and architecture and in 1925 commissioned Pannaggi to do redesign the interior of his home. The house is now the only surviving example of Futurist design in domestic architecture.

Pannaggi redesigned the foyer, dining room, bedroom and radio listening parlor.