Interni 2022 / 02

TEXTILE MOSAICS A VOYAGE THROUGH CHARACTERS AND SETTINGS OF ANTIQUITY, REPRESENTED AS IN A PAINTING: THE BISANTO COLLECTION DESIGNED BY ANTONIO ARICÒ FOR MOOOI TAKES ITS CUE FROM ITALY IN THE BYZANTINE ERA. THE CARPETS FULLY REPRESENT THE IDEA THE ARTIST WANTED TO BRING BACK TO LIFE: BLUE SKIES, STARS, GARMENTS, PRECIOUS JEWELRY AND PAINSTAKING DETAILS. “THE STATEMENT OF THE PROJECT IS DRAWING AND DECORATION, STARTING WITH AN IMAGINARY THAT HAS BEEN WIDELY EXPLORED IN THE WORLD OF FASHION, BY PEOPLE LIKE ROMEO GIGLI AND DOLCE & GABBANA, WHICH I HAVE RECOVERED IN A FRESHER, MORE NAÏF WAY,” ARICÒ SAYS. THE RESULT IS A SERIES OF 7 MODELS, INCLUDING CARPETS AND CUSHIONS, WHERE TWO-DIMENSIONAL SIGNS MINGLE WITH 3D ELEMENTS. IN THE PHOTOS, ADRIANO (LEFT), BASED ON THE MYSTERIOUS SNAKE IN…

INtopics EDITORIAL P1. Sono interni molto particolari quelli che pubblichiamo nel numero di gennaio/febbraio: progetti concepiti per committenti illuminati che sfumano i confini tra pubblico e privato, riconducendo entro scenari abitativi l'idea di microcittà e giardini dello spirito pronti ad accogliere anche altro. Ne è un esempio la casa-serra di Francesco Mutti, progettata da Carlo Ratti e Italo Rota, che si sviluppa intorno a un meraviglioso albero di Ficus alto dieci metri e sperimenta come la natura stessa possa diventare un elemento di costruzione plasmabile. Oppure la ristrutturazione di un attico di Luigi Caccia Dominioni a Milano, progettato nel 1960-’61, che si apre alle riprese di un serial internazionale e si proietta così in una narrazione tutta contemporanea. Come l'architettura, anche il design ha il potere di raccontare storie, creare…

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Can planting a tree change your life? Definitely. Even more so, if the tree in question is a specimen 10 meters high standing at the center of your living room, inside a space specially designed and built for the plant’s wellbeing and your own. Meeting Alma in India, a marvelous 50-year-old Ficus tree (not the ‘sacred’ variety), symbol in oriental cultures of welcome, gratitude and respect, a bridge between heaven and earth, Yin and Yang, meant all this for Francesco Mutti, at the helm of Mutti S.p.A. since 1994, a company known all over the world: a way of writing a new story that makes the love of the absolute beauty of nature its true focus, as a synonym of authenticity, the bounty of the earth and its products, the…

CLASSICISM(S) A SET OF STORIES TO PORTRAY THE NEW HOME FRAGRANCE COLLECTION OF GINORI 1735, DESIGNED BY LUCA NICHETTO AND COMPOSED OF SCENTED CANDLES, INCENSE BURNERS AND DIFFUSORS IN PORCELAIN. THE AMAZON, THE LOVER, THE LADY, THE SCHOLAR, THE ACOLYTE, THE FAVORITE, THE FRIAR, THE FIRE-MASTER: THESE ARE THE PROTAGONISTS OF THE COURT OF CATERINA DE’ MEDICI, WHO THROUGH THE VISION OF CHRISTIAN TAGLIAVINI BECOME NOBLE SCULPTURAL CHARACTERS. THE CREATIVE PROJECT STARTS WITH 16TH-CENTURY FORMS AND SETTINGS, WHILE THE COSTUMES HAVE BEEN MADE BY A THEATER WORKSHOP IN THE STYLE OF THE PERIOD. THE RESULTS ARE SHOTS LIKE PAINTINGS, SUSPENDED IN TIME. LEFT, THE AMAZON FRAGRANCE DIFFUSER. RIGHT, THE LOVER, A DECORATIVE SCENTED CANDLEHOLDER-STATUE IN BISCUIT PORCELAIN. (C.T.) GINORI1735.COM…

ARCHITECTURE It’s one of the most famous works of Italian postwar reconstruction, visited and studied by architects from all over Europe as an innovative example of a residential building: the apartment house built by Luigi Caccia Dominioni in 1960-61 on Piazza Carbonari, in a northern district of Milan between the Maggiolina and the Villaggio dei Giornalisti. For the architect – who in those years was rebuilding large portions of the historical center – this was an important opportunity for experimentation on a peripheral zone: an area that was emptier, free from encumbrances, but also quite disorderly. Caccia Dominioni interpreted the residential typology in terms of bourgeois luxury, while at the same time managing to bring urban order to the busy piazza and the nearby public park. The lot – resulting…