HIGHLIGHTS

Griante

This is what happens when all the parties work together to ensure the stability of the whole —

Coney

Its precise and clear carpentry, as if it were an untouched agricultural tool, make it seem like a relic of the future —

Nemea

All the structural components become thinner where lightness is needed and thicken where resistance is needed —

Meanwhile

It is a collection of upholstered airport seats with soft shapes that invite you to indulge in the pleasure of waiting —

Lamorisse

As if the mind, so accustomed to gravity, suspended all scientific explanations to simply contemplate the grace of flight —

Nolita Sofa

We thought bigger for the third season of the Nolita series: a wide modular sofa to lie down and cheer up —

Lamorisse Wood

The soft padded seat is a touch of color independent from the wooden frame. It stands out declaring pure comfort —

Panarea

The noble origin of this collection lies in the laborious art of weaving: the oldest craftsmanship technique in the world —

Guinea

If form follows function we are convinced that one way or another it will catch it, with pleasant effects —

Shirley & Garland

It looks like nowadays if you want to be an actress you have to know everything about flame retardant fabrics! —

The project is more or less a game, if less is more.

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Delta

The layering of organic and inorganic elements is the inspiration we decided to work on for this outdoor fabric —

Amelia Sofa

Amelia is a modular sofa system that allows a great variety of compositions, bringing the same relaxed elegance in every type of space —

Nemea

The aluminum frame is a bone, and its tapered legs seem muscle spindles leant for the sprint!

Vitruvio

Materials and proportions are the only ornament of these unique pieces born from our partnership with the craftsman Giordano Viganò —

Archivio Osvaldo Borsani

Graphic Art direction of The Osvaldo Borsani exhibition, the first retrospective about the master of design, held at the Milan Triennale in 2018 —

Tribeca

There is a portion of the memory dedicated to the childhood summers. It can only be accessed with a license of vagueness —

Nolita

It is a line, a drawing in the space, an idea so simple that it seems to have always existed

Osaka Metal

As in the ideograms of oriental writing, a two-dimensional sign contains a third dimension which is depth of meaning —

Tung

The light comes flashing fast and allows us to see in the night. Telling stories, illuminating insights, wear an idea —

It is difficult to say something about CMP without running into the problem that they think as a plurality, they are manifold.

— Maury Ballstein

Essay No.2

The Hau of the project and other seemingly magical things.

“The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. There is the same interchange between these two worlds that there is between one art and another, migratory passings to and fro, quickenings, Promethean liberations and discoveries” - Wallace Stevens

In vernacular culture and handmade things, lies a power of attraction that requires gratitude and care. So-called primitive peoples of the Pacific Ocean believe donated objects, have a power, the Hau, which bears the presence of the donor or of people who previously used the object. Is it possible to find traces of this spirit in an industrially produced object? The work of the designer, the solutions found by the people who developed the project leave a footprint in the object, which is a vestige of that spirit. The more authentic the designer’s dedication to the future user is, the more meaningful the object will be. The object, like a gift, will somehow retain part of the characters of people who worked to create it, and it will be, in all its simplicity, inexplicably attractive. Personality into objects derives from the experience of designers, from their way of seeing and transmitting what happens in the world within them.

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