Graphic Days® presents DO NOT DISTURB, a private collection that, beginning with the first “Do Not Disturb” card picked up as a souvenir in Pakistan, has over time evolved into an extraordinary archive.

Throughout his life, Edoardo Flores has collected over 21,000 “Do Not Disturb” cards from hotels around the world. The selection on display—just over 2% of the total—demonstrates how a simple object, often overlooked, can reflect the graphic cultures, habits, and visual imaginations of distant lands. Within each card, one can glimpse shared codes alongside local gestures, spontaneous variations, and intriguing graphic outcomes born, perhaps, unconsciously.

DO NOT DISTURB invites us to view these small signals not only with curiosity and respect, but as symbolic thresholds between public and private, between intimacy and the external world. It is a visual exploration of the concept of boundaries, narrated through an object recognized by all.

From a collection by Edoardo Flores, an exhibition co-curated by Paolo Berra, Beatrice Vallorani and Graphic Days®. A visual exploration of the sense of limit, told through an object recognised by all.