To enter the Milan apartment of the artist and architect Luigi Serafini, one must pass beneath the number 1.61803, an approximation of the golden ratio, a fitting introduction to its famously inscrutable resident.
In 1981, Serafini published Codex Seraphinianus, an illustrated encyclopedia of an imagined world. The book's entries are funny, bizarre and occasionally grotesque, with accompanying text in a made-up language of runelike symbols.
In the decades since its release, semioticians have attempted to decode the writing, and the project has been celebrated by figures like Italo Calvino and Federico Fellini.
After finishing The Codex, Serafini shifted his attention to designing velvet dining chairs with swirly steel backrests, showcasing his evolution as both an artist and a designer.
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