Rugs that look like walls and walls that look like rugs, tables, chairs, panelling, bookcases, and more: 280 pages of creativity and colours, of compositions and combinations, of solutions and options. These are the images that make up the presentational book of Patricia Urquiola’s new creations for Budri and that have – inevitably, only in part – enhanced the company’s new showroom, inaugurated in the Brera area just days before the start of Milano Design Week.
The essence of marble transformed into a playful and relaxing presence through the choice of colours, sudden inlays, and unexpected patterns which Patricia Urquiola designed and which – as she herself admits – she didn’t think it would be possible to create, but which the experts at Budri made real. Discussing the single products is virtually pointless because it’s all of them as a whole that capture the eye and, subsequently, the heart and mind.
The designer’s meeting with Budri allowed her to make contact with a new and unexplored world that she faced without preconceptions and that she discovered as she went along. Perhaps it was her ability to maintain a healthy and slightly adolescent curiosity and a faithful and delicate approach that helped to produce this extraordinary result: with marble “it can be done”!
