Innehållsförteckning för 2023 / 1-2 från Interni

ART Continuous sinuous lines, close broken strokes and full-bodied spirals create taut yet rich and dynamic images, mordant but with natural overtones. A path of simplification has led Jacopo Riva, aka Jeugov, to abandon complex graphic effects and shades of color. Often white is the dominant feature of his works, understood as a void between the elements, determining undelineated forms to be read in negative. Riva draws by hand using felt tips on paper and then moves on to digital work, where he cleans up the lines and defines the colors. He also makes use of other techniques, such as engraving on paper and stencils with spray paint. Born in Milan in 1981, he graduated from art school and then specialized in graphic communication. In 2002 he started working for…

SCANDINAVIAN DESIGN STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR After its enforced suspension, Stockholm Furniture Fair returns from 7 to 11 February. 30,000 visitors are expected to attend the display, with over 400 exhibitors from 31 countries in an area of 25,000 square meters. For the first time the guest of honor will be Swedish: the Front design studio (which in 2006 styled Interni’s café-stand) has been given the task of designing the welcome installation in the entrance hall. Together with confirmed events, like the Greenhouse exhibition for young talents, there are several novelties planned. The Gallery Edition exhibition, curated by the designer Sophia Bratt, creates an unprecedented synergy with the city as a stage for products from companies taking part in the parallel Stockholm Design Week. Nude Edition is a new exhibition format…

SHOWROOMS Recently inaugurated in a central area of Milan (Via Cavallotti 15), Contract Atelier is notable for a display model that makes it a standout in the panorama of spaces devoted to the contract sector. The interior design by Studio Klass renounces the classic succession of ideally reconstructed rooms, as well as the typical micro stands devoted to individual brands, instead focusing on evoking a bewitching peep-through effect. Within Contract Atelier (a definition that is far from random), the product is deliberately absent, or almost, and the neighboring flagship stores of the various partner brands represent the ideal solution for those wishing to explore the full range of each. Dotting the rooms are large material libraries that display tools, finishes and details, while the samples of the companies remain hidden…

Antolini’s natural stone is an eyecatching feature of Mario Santini’s redesign of a private residence in the center of Verona. It enabled the architect to combine his aesthetic, a style that revisits the 50s and 70s, with the brief from his client, who wanted a rigorous and modern restyling. The outcome is that the renovated interiors are minimalist yet welcoming, while the combinations of varied materials animates a lively stylistic interplay. The heart of the home is the kitchen facing the dining room, for which an island has been created with the worktop completely faced with Black Cosmic granite in Leather finish, its characteristic matte black tint heightened by the chromatic contrast created by the white quartz veining and clusters of mica interspersed with tiny golden inclusions. The geometries defined…

EXHIBITIONS In Scandinavian countries, winter brings extremely low temperatures and little sunshine. The landscape is shrouded in snow and ice, making everyday life more complex. Yet, while people struggle with the constraints, paradoxically they stimulate convivial get-togethers. This is what you see happening on the lakes, for example, once they freeze over and become the setting for lively gatherings and winter sports. The scenery changes completely, offering new visions of the landscape. Art, too, is quick to venture into this winter climate, as elsewhere, and the Scandinavian landscape provides the ideal backdrop for artistic experiments, festivals and outdoor sculpture exhibitions. As winter approaches, on the long promenade that divides the maritime life of the fjord from the city’s center, Oslo hosts the Fjord Oslo festival, which for three nights enchants…

The untranslatable Danish word hygge indicates something that has a beneficial effect on the spirit, such as the ability to create a welcoming atmosphere or enjoy the beauty of life. In other words, the quintessence of happiness. Perhaps this is why, so they say, Danes are the happiest people in the world. Copenhagen even has an institute that conducts research into happiness: the Institut fur Lykkeforskiving. Its CEO is Meik Wiking, the author of books on the essence of hygge – the latest being My Hygge Home (2022). So we asked him to explain, on the basis of the Institute’s research, how far happiness is a question of genetic code and how far it depends on the built or geographical environment. “There is a lot of debate on how much…

This year the choice of the most talented designer on the international scene according to Maison&Objet went to an Israeli designer: Raphaël Navot. Born in Jerusalem in 1977, he studied at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and then settled in Paris. After working with David Lynch on the design of the Parisian nightclub Silencio, he worked on interior decor and design projects. He collaborated with Roche Bobois on the Nativ collection, with sculptural and primitive furnishings, and with Loro Piana Interiors on a line of sofas, armchairs and coffee tables that raised craftsmanship to its highest expression. His creative process is based on the quest for a timeless design, beyond fashions and trends, strongly inspired by the natural world, its forms and materials. He loves to work closely with the…

INCOVER ART P20. JEUGOV LA SUA GRAFICA TRATTEGGIATA EPPURE MORBIDA, PIENA, CONCENTRICA, TRAE ISPIRAZIONE DALL’OSSERVAZIONE DELLA NATURA. COME PER LA COVER DI INTERNI Linee continue e sinuose, tratti spezzati ravvicinati e spirali pastose a creare immagini sintetiche ma piene e dinamiche – sferzanti – dai rimandi naturali. Un percorso di semplificazione ha portato Jacopo Riva, in arte Jeugov, ad abbandonare grafiche complesse e sfumature di colore. Spesso il vero protagonista delle sue opere è il bianco, inteso come spazio vuoto tra gli elementi, che determina forme non delineate che si leggono in negativo. Riva disegna a mano con pennarelli su carta per poi passare al lavoro digitale, dove pulisce le linee e definisce le cromie. Si avvale anche di altre tecniche, come l’incisone su carta e l’utilizzo di stencil con…

THE PATH OF RESEARCH TAKEN BY ALPI ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ART AND DESIGN HAS NOW REACHED ITS FOURTH EDITION, WITH THE PROJECT “IF I WERE A CARPENTER” IN COLLABORATION WITH RON ARAD. AFTER MARTINO GAMPER, ALESSANDRO MENDINI AND PIERO LISSONI, VITTORIO ALPI, PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY, HAS ASKED RON ARAD TO GIVE A FORM TO ALPI WOOD PRODUCTS. THE RESULT IS SURPRISING: ARAD HAS CREATED THREE CHAIRS OF THE BTT SERIES WITH SINUOUS, SOFT LINES, IN TWO-TONE SHEETS SHAPED AND INTERLOCKED TOGETHER, CREATING A THREE-DIMENSIONAL GAME OF FORMS AND HUES CAPABLE OF GIVING THE SEATING A MUTABLE IMAGE DEPENDING ON THE VANTAGE POINT OF THE OBSERVER. VISIONARY AND MATERIAL SCULPTURAL FURNISHINGS, CAPTURED BY THE GAZE OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER PIERPAOLO FERRARI, WHOSE ECCENTRIC, SURREAL PROJECT PROVOCATIVELY INTERPRETS THE FORCEFUL PERSONALITY…

Project by OMA / AMO ELLEN VAN LOON and GIULIO MARGHERI Materials and architecture. The material of invention, to use the title of a famous book by Ezio Manzini, when translated into forms, can activate the wonder, curiosity and pleasure of a true experience, becoming effective even in the era of the metaverse and growing digitalization, above all in the area of retail spaces. All this emerges in a convincing way in the recent project by OMA/AMO carried out by Ellen van Loon and Giulio Margheri for three stores of the fashion brand Jacquemus. They are inside department stores of historic allure: one in Paris at Les Galeries Lafayette, and the other two in London, respectively in Selfridges and Harvey Nichols. “But before choosing the locations of what eventually became…

Touching the untouchable: this seems to be the challenge met by several leading product designers to reformulate the king of all musical instruments, the grand piano. Especially in extremely technical and specialized fields, there are typologies that resist the passage of time and avoid changes. The perfect functioning of a pianoforte, honed across the years by musicians and composer in its use, makes it what we might call a “form of time,” in relation to the theories of George Kubler. Yet there are some cases of designers who have tackled the idea, though usually with the constraint of not being able to alter the more sensitive parts of the object. In the 1920s, in fact, a Scandinavian designer of the caliber of Kaare Klint, mentor of a generation of immense…

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VIRTUOUS COLLABORATIONS LUMINOUS GEOMETRIES Stick is the collection that opens the partnership between Contardi Lighting and Studiopepe. The lamps are inspired by the form of a stripped-down polygon, starting from a basic module with a repeated triangular section giving rise to endless configurations with their expressive power renewed each time. In the elements of the line, the light, expertly modulated, is shed from a diffuser with a ribbed glass effect, contained within a metal structure with satin-effect copper and gilt nickel finishes. “In Stick,” explains Arianna Lelli Mami of Studiopepe, “the light seems to emanate from architectural slits. A precise intention: design, styling and luminous efficiency. Like the choice of finishes in classic and neutral colors, evoking Nanda Vigo’s 70s atmosphere: colors capable of restoring the visual and tactile perception…

PRODUCTION The fruitful partnership between BIG and Artemide continues with the expansion of two collections born from the creativity of the famous architectural practice and developed by leveraging the company’s technological know-how. La Linea is a flexible tube (2.5 or 5 meters long) capable of twisting and turning through space in keeping with non-predefined geometries. It can be installed indoors or outdoors with fasteners concealed in its cross section and can be used in many areas thanks to its range of functions: quality of light (uniform, pleasing and outstanding efficiency because of its patented optics), degree of IP protection (La Linea’s elements withstand very high minimum and maximum temperatures, from -20°C to +40°C), ductility and modularity. Today the family has grown with La Linea 25, up to 20 meters long,…

SHOWROOMS Moroso turns 70 and, to properly celebrate such an important anniversary, it has gifted itself a new flagship store in New York, in the heart of Manhattan, at 105 Madison Avenue. Laid out on three levels with a total floor space of over 400 square meters, the store, designed by Patricia Urquiola, uses the internal organization of its different spaces to express in architectural terms the company’s evolution, today aimed at affirming a concept capable of reconciling its DNA historically oriented towards research and experimentation with the flexibility essential to market needs. You pass beyond the window display, where More-So’s Gallery of Wonders is located, an internal division of the brand dedicated to the creation of unique or limited edition works, and enter a large double-height open space from…

PROJECTS This story of timeless yarns and textiles began overseas in 2020, when the VVDA practice headed by Vincent Van Duysen designed the Loro Piana store in the Meatpacking District, New York. It continued in 2022 at Via della Moscova in Milan, where the Maison has established its headquarters, uniting functions and spaces, offices and boutiques, and asked the Belgian architect to imagine its chosen home in the Cortile della Seta, a complex built in the second half of the 19th century for storing and marketing rolls of silk. It was then rebuilt and extended by Luigi Caccia Dominioni after World War II and finally redeveloped in 2021 by Asti Architetti, which redesigned the street front and the large internal courtyard embellished with a new glass roof. With the earlier…

DESIGNFUL FASHION For historical and social reasons, Denmark is a laboratory of great interest for sustainable and responsible fashion. Some of those responsible for this change have recently had an exhibition in the rooms of the renovated Design Museum Denmark in Copenhagen, in a unique journey that starts from the history of wardrobes. Three historic wardrobes and four young Danish designers enlivened the first installation at the AKUT, a space in the museum devoted to visionary ideas that – although still embryonic – prompt reflection on themes of universal scope. The curator Else Skjold selected garments from Lærke Bagger, Sur le Chemin Design Studio, La Femme Rousse and Artikel København, relating them to some cabinets from the museum’s collection. The reason is simple: if fashion describes the evolution of trends…

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Project by ARQUITECTONICA (architecture + landscape) and ACPV ARCHITECTS ANTONIO CITTERIO PATRICIA VIEL (interior design) The residential tower rising at the prestigious address 1428 Brickell in Miami – 70 stories and 189 housing units of various types, equipped with a series of community spaces that make the difference – represents an innovative model that stems from the collaboration between two internationally acclaimed studios: a project of interaction, complementary in its concept, values and processes of implementation. In this exclusive, Interni tells the story with a series of renderings, although the final result may still be subject to modifications (the completion of construction is scheduled for prior to the end of 2025). The protagonists explain in their own terms. It starts in Milan: then history repeats itself overseas? Patricia Viel: In…

The passion for wood and new bio-based materials. Sophisticated creativity that does not abandon the taste for the unfinished. The love of the great Scandinavian masters that morphs into digital contaminations. A world of opposites nimbly reconciled in the universe of Spacon & X, the multidisciplinary studio based in Copenhagen that has scattered its works around Denmark for some time now, and is already a reference point for museums, fashion houses and star-studded restaurants. The Danish Design Museum has wagered on the pencils of Nikoline Dyrup Carlsen, Svend Jacob Pedersen and Malene Hvidt, the three minds behind the studio, for the exhibition “The future is present” that kicked off a new setup of the museum after three years of work. The chef René Redzepi has chosen them for the interiors…

The theme of sustainability is not so much about safeguarding environment as about the conditions of life of mankind on a planet – our planet – which actually cares little about having a higher or lower temperature, or an atmosphere made of oxygen or CO2. Actually, the image we have of nature as an authentic, uncontaminated place is to a great extent invented, driven by an idealized viewpoint dating back to the romanticism of the 1800s, which blossomed as a sort of reaction against the eyesores of the early industrial society, fueling the pursuit (in literature and tourism) of an alternative to the black smoke of cities. An ideological opposition was formulated and continued throughout the 1900s, reaching us here in the present in practically intact form. But this opposition…

ANNIVERSARIES MISCHER’TRAXLER: DESIGN NOUVEAU The Austrian duo of designers was called in by the Perrier-Jouët champagne house to create a limited edition bottle for the Belle Epoque cuvée celebrating the 120th anniversary of its iconic symbol: the Japanese anemone designed by Art Nouveau pioneer Emile Gallé. With a contemporary technology and vocabulary, Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler designed the anemone in a colorful and multi-layered representation. As they explain, “Ours is a narrative, emotional approach. We wanted to reflect on the concept of biodiversity, so we reproduced the 70 animal and plant species that, with the help of biologists, we found in the Perrier-Jouët vineyards in the Champagne region. We fixed them in a watercolor drawing that was then digitized and printed on the bottle. Nature inspires us not in…

By adding a new piece (the third) to its extension, Barovier&Toso’s Milan showroom has now expanded to cover 500 square meters, with seven windows on the first floor and two display windows on Via Durini. The result is a setting with a heightened expressive and imaginative potential, again interpreted by the skills of vandersandestudio. The design’s projection of the company’s stylistic features starts on the street with black iron planters with a contrasting white logo evoking the colors marking the brand’s identity on the windows in the facade. The window displays feature the new Vallonné and Vallonné Opale collections. The left-hand one, in particular, presents a conceptual display evoking its production process with a structure of inflatable elements and iron pillars forming a sort of grid evoking the gesture of…

The lighting expertise of L&L Luce&Light today enables us to appreciate more fully the visit to an archaeological jewel unknown to most people: the hypogeum of Santa Maria in Stelle, not far from Verona. Set beneath the church of Santa Maria Assunta, the hypogeum was originally built in Roman times as an aqueduct. Then over the centuries it underwent many developments: from a nymphaeum for a pagan cult built by Publius Pomponius Cornelianus in the third century AD to a place of early Christian worship in the fourth century, until its consecration in the twelfth century, when it was adapted to liturgical celebrations by Pope Urban III. In 2020, after lengthy restoration, the new lighting project was developed to a design by Cinzia Todeschini and Lorella Marconi of the Lucearchitettura…

CREATING COROMANDEL. MARCO ZANUSO IN SOUTH AFRICA by Edna Peres & Andrea Zamboni, Artifice Editore 2022, pp. 208, £24.95. Press House, built in 1975 on the large Coromandel estate of South African tycoon Sydney Arnold Press, with his wife a lover of the great outdoors, is set in the stunning landscape of Gauteng, the northernmost province of South Africa, formerly part of the Transvaal north of Pretoria. Marco Zanuso closely related the landscape, with its immense horizons and gently rolling hills, to the house as an element of dialogue and a cue to the design of a disruptive architecture, with an almost archeological flavor. In an accomplished synthesis, he expressed the atmosphere of a building of ancient times projected into the future. Zanuso received the commission from Sydney and Victoria…

By now it’s a tradition: we start the new year with an issue in English, coordinated with the international trade events of January and February. The design world seems to be attempting to shake off the torpor of the last three years, as confidence returns in the ‘live’ presentation of projects packed with updated contents and values. First of all, the value of ethical living, driven by new forms of friendship between humankind and nature to combat the effects of climate change, as demonstrated by the works of architecture examined in this month’s issue. Examples include Giovanni and Nicoletta Russo, who have decided to protect the landscape of Li Galli, a private island off the shore of Positano, in dialogue with site-specific artworks created with refuse and recycled materials. Arquitectonica…

Project by GIOVANNI RUSSO DE LI GALLI and NICOLETTA FIORUCCI RUSSO Off the coast of Positano, halfway to the island of Capri, there is a small private archipelago called Li Galli. It is formed by three small islands known as Le Sirene: the large Gallo Lungo, La Rotonda and La Castelluccia. In Book XII of the Odyssey it was described by Homer as the ‘home’ of mythological aquatic creatures, half woman and half fish. Beings which in the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes were instead “maidens in body, and partly birds.” Women with the heads of roosters. Galli, in Italian: hence the name. It is a magical place. The rocky promontory of Gallo Lungo slopes steeply into the sea. The flourishing Mediterranean vegetation, dense with maritime pines at the top,…

Is it fair to say that your work is not merely a project, but also a continuous invention to modify the paradigms that influence our lives? It is mainly a soul project about a spiritual connection. There is functionality and there is furniture. Ever since we were little kids, Humberto and I always had a very strong bond, and this bond manifested itself not only through the functionality of our objects but also and above all else through our brotherly love. Is ‘mental illness’ at the center of the creative process? Obviously, there isn’t such a thing as a sane artist. Being healthy is something that the general public worries about, but the artist has to go to hell, from heaven to hell, and he must travel this distance without…

Andreas Engesvik After six years of collaboration with Norway Says, Andreas Engesvik opened his own studio in Oslo in 2009 to develop furnishings and industrial design with international companies. In Italy he works with FontanaArte. His production has contributed to put contemporary Norwegian design on the international stage, in a moment when Scandinavian design was known above all for its history. “I think the northern companies have more verve and self-confidence,” Engesvik says. “In Italian companies I have sensed more uncertainty. I prefer the transparency of the Scandinavian approach, and the fact that Nordic companies have younger teams. Though I appreciate the know-how and production prowess of Italian firms, I believe they should not underestimate their capacity for vision; otherwise, if they concentrate too much on business, they run the…

INtopics EDITORIAL P1. Come da tradizione, iniziamo l'anno nuovo con un numero in lingua inglese rivolto agli appuntamenti internazionali di gennaio e febbraio. Il mondo del design dimostra di volersi scrollare di dosso la pesantezza degli ultimi tre anni e torna fiducioso a presentare 'dal vivo' i suoi progetti, rinnovati nei contenuti e nei valori. Primo fra tutti quello dell'abitare etico, secondo nuove forme di amicizia tra uomo e natura capaci di contrastare gli effetti del cambiamento climatico. È quanto raccontano le architetture prese in rassegna in questo mese. C'è chi come Giovanni e Nicoletta Russo sceglie la tutela del paesaggio di Li Galli, isoletta privata al largo di Positano, e il dialogo con opere artistiche site-specific create con materiali dismessi e di riciclo. Arquitectonica e ACPV Architects Antonio Citterio…