MILAN — Ever the catalyst between cross-cultural dialogue, Nina Yashar is bringing the Dolce Vita of Italian design to New York City. Her landmark gallery Nilufar has teamed up with TriBeCa’s Galerie56 to present a curated selection of rare Italian masterpieces. It is her first exhibition outside the design and art fair circuit.

The exhibit opens Thursday and will run until Aug. 27, showcasing collectible furniture and accessories items created between the 1930s and the ’70s, Yashar told WWD.

Entitled “The Dolce Vita: Masters of Italian Design,” the event is expected to bring the golden age of Italian creativity and the innovation and craftsmanship that emerged from that epoch to the fore.

It is not the first ode to Italian creativity for Galerie56 founder, architect Lee F. Mindel. Earlier this year, his space explored the work of Italian legend Ettore Sottsass with “Et Tu, Ettore.”

This time, Galerie56 said it is offering “a new stage for Italian vintage artistry in a space that is both intimate and open to the urban life of New York.”

Yashar, a Milanese design pillar, commented on how the exhibit is a love letter to Italy.

“It reflects not only the deep connection with our cultural heritage, but also a desire to share it in an environment where architecture, design, art, and people can intersect, and Galerie56 offers the perfect stage with its civic-minded presence in the city,” Yashar said.

Works on display include iconic pieces by bygone designers, among them a bookcase by Ico Parisi, and a cabinet originally designed by Gio Ponti and later revamped by Piero Fornasetti features green lacquer and black malachite, as well as Sottsass’ Sun carpet.

The common thread between these designs is their experimental forms and functional dimensions. Six 1930s BBPR chairs will be placed in the window of the gallery, standing as a testament to the period’s design prowess. BBPR was an architectural firm founded in Milan in 1932 by Gian Luigi Banfi, Lodovico Barbiano di Belgiojoso, Enrico Peressutti and Ernesto Nathan Rogers.

Yashar and her gallery most recently partnered with the Nilaya Anthology by Asian Paints, Mumbai’s latest design hub. Asian Paints is India’s leading paint and decor company. This collaboration presents a vintage-meets-contemporary selection of furniture lighting and decor from both the Nilufar gallery and Yashar’s Nilufar Edition collection, curated by Yashar herself.

The daughter of an Iranian antique carpet dealer, she has forged many relationships in the design world over the past four decades. To her credit, she has sealed the successful destiny of old and new visionaries by housing their creations under her roof. Pieces by renowned designers such as Luigi Caccia Dominioni, Bruno Mathsson, Alvar Aalto and Martino Gamper, along with emerging names like Christian Pellizzari, have passed through the doors of her galleries. With more than 300 objects on display at any time, her “living museum” is credited with chronicling the ongoing artistic era.