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A new history is being made in the domestic landscape of our day – a geography perceptible on the surfaces of sculptures for living, sinuous maps of the terrain which can be read like altitude gauges, exhilarating leaps in elevation that overcome the flat linearity of our routines, to avoid falling into the habit of dead calm.
This collection of objects is designed to live within the home, breathing in one with it. Designs in a catalogue that have left behind the minimalism that had long been the exclusive objective and destination for many and hich has become an opportunity for new happiness, a departure from the cold and ascetic precision that had redominated in the home. Now, the surfaces of these objects called furnishings, which have always ohabited with us, have unexpectedly been given life and have become animated, in some way even hameleonic, through a careful work of removing, polishing, and cutting away, ending up as bodies where the words lightness, movement and rhythm are obtained by delving into the material in all of its characteristics. Today, wood has regained its status as a player in a new season of design, as it had been in the 1950s with Mollino and Eames, with Juhl and De Carli, with Ponti and Wirkkala, renewed, rejuvenated and revitalized by new methods of processing that are clearly modern but still hold the essence of tradition. Such as the tradition of inlaying the thinnest sheets of Canaletto walnut to define anew the objects designed to protect the many “things” of our life. Acceleration in the form of a container, Riddled, a weightless wooden diamond, raised to new levels by a supremely capable designer, that quintessential architect and pure experimenter, Steven Holl. Such as the tradition of carving a piece of multi-layered solid natural wood (in walnut, mahogany, cherry, oak and ash) to resemble drops falling onto water, a silent spectacle of surprising, awe-inspiring nature, translated here in the bench, Ripples, which is a real record by a true genius, Toyo Ito. Such as the development of willowy structures carved in space, defined by slim surfaces in the interplay of negatives and positives: a new jewel in the form of a shelving system, Sudoku, a spatial crossword by an innovative master, Mario Bellini. Such as the designs created by other young and emerging designers who have already demonstrated their ability, their knowledge and their expertise – Salvatore Indriolo and the already acclaimed, and recognized, Diego Vencato.