GISTO

GISTO GISTO is a studio/workshop based between Milano and Treviso (Italy), operating at the intersection o

GISTO is a studio/workshop based between Milano and Treviso (Italy), operating at the intersection of architecture, design and craftsmanship. We develop projects from conception to production, working partially or entirely in all phases. Since 2010, we participate to a series of research projects with the support of important institutions such as: Salt Istanbul, Biennale di Architettura di Venezia

, ZKM Karlsruhe, Fondazione Benetton and Oslo Architecture Triennale. We collaborate with: The Room produzioni, Studio Folder, Space Caviar, Fablab Torino, Officine Arduino, Xuni technology, Fablab Cfv and CaratteriMobili.

Dopo 10 anni pieni di idee, collaborazioni e progetti con amici salutiamo il nostro amato studio alla Fabbrica del Vapor...
04/05/2026

Dopo 10 anni pieni di idee, collaborazioni e progetti con amici salutiamo il nostro amato studio alla Fabbrica del Vapore.
Per noi inizia un nuovo capitolo… in uno spazio un po’ più grande!

Lasciamo disponibile una scrivania con 2 postazioni + librerie, in un ambiente speciale, circondato da persone e realtà stimolanti.

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11/04/2026

Moving a 3 × 1.5 m table through Venice is a challenge in itself.

Fradeo isn’t just a table - it’s a system. Its frame and legs transform into a stretcher, a smart, intuitive transport device. In this phase, the table temporarily “loses” its function to become a collaborative gesture of movement. From the narrow Venetian streets to the studio, every step is part of the project. Once in place, it’s reassembled and returns to its role as a working surface, ready for use. A table that adapts to the city, the journey, and the people who handle it: large yet demountable, solid yet mobile.

Project by: Studio GISTO
Design Team: Alessandro Mason, Davide Biancucci
Manufacturing: Aljoša Marković
Photos: Luca Padovani

We are excited to conclude our beautiful and intense year with a project that is very important to us because it touches...
19/12/2025

We are excited to conclude our beautiful and intense year with a project that is very important to us because it touches on many of the topics we have been working on for some time. The exhibition design for Mondi in Posa at Triennale Milano is in fact a reuse project, involving almost the entire exhibition design, but seeking to change everything with just a few partial dismantling actions, with the intention of making the spaces designed for the exhibition A Journey into Biodiversity Eight Forays on Planet Earth functional for a new photography exhibition, an anthological exhibition of the work of Paolo Rosselli.

Rosselli's work was one of the starting points for our work, his diagonal shots, his shots, points of view, transparencies. The second point was, right from the start, the attempt to transform the entire structure from a series of spaces with a clear focus and center into a platform for viewing. The two main interventions are at the two ends: two structures and two installations, closed and designed as a sort of diorama, have become permeable and have become two viewing points towards Paolo Rosselli's work. Their purpose is to generate new perspectives and points of view, including towards the Triennale building. The project is also a successful continuation of the pilot project conceived by Triennale Milano and
Nolostand, which we had the honor of working on to devise a system of installations that reduces environmental impact to zero, becoming entirely circular. The exhibition will be open until January 6, 2026.

Project by Studio GISTO
Design Team: Alessandro Mason, Elena Festa, Vittoria Brugali
Curated by: Studio Paolo Rosselli
In collaboration with: Francesco Paleari, Cecilia Da Pozzo, Giacomo Quinland
Photographs 7-8/11-12/19-20 by: Gianluca di Ioia

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28/11/2025

On November 8 and 9, the PAC in Milan hosted Daniele Costa's exhibition “Seeing Beyond Fading,” presented in collaboration with Careof.
Costa's work was created in a hospice which, through the use of thermal cameras, replaces light with heat and constructs a video installation that observes the thermal fade from life to death. The body as landscape and heat as trace become the guiding principle of a study that reinterprets the transition between presence and absence. In the language of editing, fade-ins and fade-outs mark the appearance and disappearance; Costa reverses their meaning, seeking to see beyond the fade. Bodies become thermal landscapes, vibrant fields that trace contacts, distances, and the persistence of vital energy. The large scale of the projections invites the audience to share in the time of waiting.

We worked on the exhibition design, starting from the artist's works and immediately searching for a dialogue with the PAC: what we proposed was an intervention that tries, through a narrative device, to act simultaneously on both the artist project and building. Our idea was to exhibit the artwork in order to set a collective ritual. We proposed a scale shift, making the body at the center of Costa's work a landscape to look at, an unexpected sunset that appears through the windows of the building designed by Ignazio Gardella and creates a new horizon.
The exhibition consists of a lightweight installation made up of technological devices, a large main projection on the building's windows, and a series of other screens and audio devices.

Seeing Beyond Fading
A project by: Daniele Costa
Curated by: Marta Cereda
With the collaboration of: Carolina Gestri
Project produced and promoted by: Careof
Coordination for Careof: Federica Torgano

Exhibition design: Studio GISTO
Design team: Alessandro Mason, Alice Fialà, Elena Festa
Video by: Vittoria Brugali

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On November 8 and 9, the PAC in Milan hosted Daniele Costa's exhibition “Seeing Beyond Fading,” presented in collaborati...
26/11/2025

On November 8 and 9, the PAC in Milan hosted Daniele Costa's exhibition “Seeing Beyond Fading,” presented in collaboration with Careof.
Costa's work was created in a hospice which, through the use of thermal cameras, replaces light with heat and constructs a video installation that observes the thermal fade from life to death. The body as landscape and heat as trace become the guiding principle of a study that reinterprets the transition between presence and absence. In the language of editing, fade-ins and fade-outs mark the appearance and disappearance; Costa reverses their meaning, seeking to see beyond the fade. Bodies become thermal landscapes, vibrant fields that trace contacts, distances, and the persistence of vital energy. The large scale of the projections invites the audience to share in the time of waiting. 

We worked on the exhibition design, starting from the artist's works and immediately searching for a dialogue with the PAC: what we proposed was an intervention that tries, through a narrative device, to act simultaneously on both the artist project and building. Our idea was to exhibit the artwork in order to set a collective ritual. We proposed a scale shift, making the body at the center of Costa's work a landscape to look at, an unexpected sunset that appears through the windows of the building designed by Ignazio Gardella and creates a new horizon.
The exhibition consists of a lightweight installation made up of technological devices, a large main projection on the building's windows, and a series of other screens and audio devices.

Seeing Beyond Fading
A project by: Daniele Costa
Curated by: Marta Cereda
With the collaboration of: Carolina Gestri
Project produced and promoted by: Careof
Coordination for Careof: Federica Torgano

Exhibition design: Studio GISTO
Design team: Alessandro Mason, Alice Fialà, Elena Festa 

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We are delighted to announce that the exhibition design we created for the 24th Triennale di Milano is being transformed...
19/11/2025

We are delighted to announce that the exhibition design we created for the 24th Triennale di Milano is being transformed and partially modified to create a new landscape, entirely made with reused materials for Paolo Rosselli’s latest exhibition: Mondi in Posa. Open from November 22 to January 6, 2026.

The exhibition consists of a selection of large-format photographs by Paolo Rosselli tells the story of the changes, contradictions, and wonders of architecture in globalized cities, through images of cities around the world taken from the 2000s to the present day. With an ironic and anti-classical eye, Rosselli's work renovates our reading and understanding of the contemporary city. The images revisit some classics of modernist architecture: from Giuseppe Terragni to Le Corbusier, rediscovering Milan, a city whose remarkable transformations the author has documented over the decades

Edited by: Paolo Rosselli Studio
In collaboration with:Francesco Paleari, Cecilia Da Pozzo, Giacomo Quinland
Exhibition design: studio GISTO Setup: Nolostand




“An Archive of Possible Machines. 80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive” is a project by Mattia Bal...
17/11/2025

“An Archive of Possible Machines. 80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive” is a project by Mattia Balsamini, in which he questions and plays with memory, as if it was malleable material, not yet settled and therefore still elastic and overwritable.
The exhibition takes its form from an everyday object from the Candy production district, in which memory becomes tangible in the display: an industrial shelf developed and perfected over the years to transport the various components of the appliance, which has now become a standard system, a silent infrastructure spread across hundreds of examples, laden with traces of use and time, an extremely authentic object.

Our intervention stems from the observation of this container object not only as a functional element, but also as a symbol: a simple yet complex support that for years has marked the work rhythms of workers and technicians within the factory.
“The exhibition (...) is presented as a single installation (...) in which Balsamini's photographic imagery is supported by the permanence of industrial and labour history. The boundary between the real and the plausible, between chronicle and lyric, seems to slowly give way. Because the point of arrival is a memory expanded to previously unexplored possibilities, a permeable memory in which the history of design can be modified and given the opportunity for a new ending.”

An Archive of Possible Machines. 
80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive 
Concept and art direction: Mattia Balsamini
Curated: Andrea Tinterri
Exhibition design: Studio GISTO
Design team: Alessandro Mason, Alice Fialà, Elena Festa

Project coordination for Impact Art Consulting: Chiara Suardi
Project coordination: Cliniq Brand Surgery: Lorenzo Piccoli e Chiara Bartolini
Preservation of archival materials: Francesco Cariati
Supported by: Comune di Milano - Assessorato allo Sviluppo Economico e Politiche del Lavoro

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“An Archive of Possible Machines. 80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive” is a project by Mattia Bal...
17/11/2025

“An Archive of Possible Machines. 80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive” is a project by Mattia Balsamini, in which he questions and plays with memory, as if it was malleable material, not yet settled and therefore still elastic and overwritable.

The exhibition takes its form from an everyday object from the Candy production district, in which memory becomes tangible in the display: an industrial shelf developed and perfected over the years to transport the various components of the appliance, which has now become a standard system, a silent infrastructure spread across hundreds of examples, laden with traces of use and time, an extremely authentic object. Our intervention stems from the observation of this container object not only as a functional element, but also as a symbol: a simple yet complex support that for years has marked the work rhythms of workers and technicians within the factory.

“The exhibition (...) is presented as a single installation (...) in which Balsamini's photographic imagery is supported by the permanence of industrial and labour history. The boundary between the real and the plausible, between chronicle and lyric, seems to slowly give way. Because the point of arrival is a memory expanded to previously unexplored possibilities, a permeable memory in which the history of design can be modified and given the opportunity for a new ending.”

An Archive of Possible Machines. 
80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive 
Concept and art direction: Mattia Balsamini
Curated: Andrea Tinterri
Exhibition design: Studio GISTO
Design team: Alessandro Mason, Alice Fialà, Elena Festa

Project coordination for Impact Art Consulting: Chiara Suardi
Project coordination: Cliniq Brand Surgery: Lorenzo Piccoli e Chiara Bartolini
Preservation of archival materials: Francesco Cariati
Supported by: Comune di Milano - Assessorato allo Sviluppo Economico e Politiche del Lavoro

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“An Archive of Possible Machines. 80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive” is a project by Mattia Bal...
06/11/2025

“An Archive of Possible Machines. 80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive” is a project by Mattia Balsamini, in which he questions and plays with memory, as if it was malleable material, not yet settled and therefore still elastic and overwritable.
The exhibition takes its form from an everyday object from the Candy production district, in which memory becomes tangible in the display: an industrial shelf developed and perfected over the years to transport the various components of the appliance, which has now become a standard system, a silent infrastructure spread across hundreds of examples, laden with traces of use and time, an extremely authentic object.
Our intervention stems from the observation of this container object not only as a functional element, but also as a symbol: a simple yet complex support that for years has marked the work rhythms of workers and technicians within the factory.

“The exhibition (...) is presented as a single installation (...) in which Balsamini's photographic imagery is supported by the permanence of industrial and labour history. The boundary between the real and the plausible, between chronicle and lyric, seems to slowly give way. Because the point of arrival is a memory expanded to previously unexplored possibilities, a permeable memory in which the history of design can be modified and given the opportunity for a new ending.”

An Archive of Possible Machines. 
80 years of Candy: visionary technologies from the archive

Concept and art direction: Mattia Balsamini
Curated: Andrea Tinterri
Exhibition design: Studio Gisto
Design team: Alessandro Mason, Alice Fialà, Elena Festa

Project coordination for Impact Art Consulting: Chiara Suardi
Project coordination: Cliniq Brand Surgery: Lorenzo Piccoli e Chiara Bartolini
Preservation of archival materials: Francesco Cariati
Supported by: Comune di Milano - Assessorato allo Sviluppo Economico e Politiche del Lavoro

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04/11/2025

Last week to visit ‘A Journey into Biodiversity, Eight Forays on Planet Earth’ curated by Telmo Pievani, philosopher of science, evolutionist, communicator and essayist. We had the great pleasure to work on the exhibition design. Eight immersive stations that tell the stories of cities and communities around the world. Each station leads to a sensory immersion and recounts a key concept of biodiversity through stories whose central theme is the possible co-evolution of human activities and ecosystems. last day to visit 9 November !

A Journey Into Biodiversity
Eight Forays on Planet Earth
Curator: Telmo Pievani
with: Massimo Labra and Maria Chiara Pastore, National Biodiversity Future Center 


Exhibition design: Studio GISTO
Design team: Alessandro Mason, Alice Cazzolato, Pietro Lora, Kasina Arunchaipong, Margherita Segatta

Works by: Davide Biancucci, Violaine Buet, Marino Capitanio, Max Casacci, Marco Cazzato, Marta Cuscunà, Luigi Ferrajoli, Elio Ferrario, Peter Godfrey-Smith, Gianni Maroccolo, ​​ Lorenzo Possenti, Studio SS16, Wim Van Egmond, Paola Villani

in collaboration with: Nolostand, Gruppo Saviola, Seawood Materials, Propp, Terraformae, Spazio Meta, De Zotti Design, Nazena, SQIM SRL/Mogu

Photos: Marco Cappelletti Studio

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