Inside the Seletti owner's colourful and kitsch home
Every morning Stefano Seletti walks fifty metres across the yard to the farmhouse where he was born. 'I say, 'Ciao mamma, tutto bene?' And we get a coffee together.'
Mother and son catch up on yesterday's news and chat about the morning's plans, and then both head to the office in the next building. The daily check-in is perfectly on brand for a doting Italian son, working for the family firm in Cicognara, in the Mantua countryside, but not quite what you might expect of the enfant terrible of contemporary design — the creative brain behind a chair bearing the legend 'Shit' and a mirror shaped like a penis. Much as she enjoys their morning confabs, 87-year-old Mamma Seletti will have none of
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