“September, let us go. It is time to migrate,” is the opening line of The Shepherds, a poem by Gabriele D’Annunzio. For us too, the time has come to go back to work after the summer break, a call to order that also has aesthetic repercussions: hence City(e)scape, a mixture of impressions, where real and surreal meet.
A rather naïf attitude, with a checkered sky as a backdrop for imaginary buildings made of segments in perspective. A kind of rigor that is actually made of lighthearted harmonies. As in the city of Ersilia narrated by Italo Calvino (The Invisible Cities), places that become a pattern, woven by relationships. In our works of architecture, the windows are marble tiles and mirrors that often a view of a world that doesn’t exist.
Even the lamps are no longer simple light sources, but an original street decoration, so elegant that even the most famous birds in the history of design have chosen it as a place to perch. The colors are resolutely metropolitan, with a concrete-effect gray scale and a touch of red, mixed together to provide a strong graphic identity for the composition. A chromatic vibration that reminds us that cities too have a heart.
The unnatural background of our trend – made with the Urban Canvas wallpaper printed on d.ecodura, the first organic bio-vinyl support, by Wall&decò – has been broken down and reassembled to create a dual perspective.
To enliven the elevations of the houses we have added fake windows, which are simply the panels in Bianco Carrara and Pietra d’Avola from the Intarsi collection created by Elisa Ossino for Salvatori.
To the left, the double terrace with loggia placed on the roof has been obtained by overlaying two Massimo vases in white ceramic with platinum details by LatoxLato.
At the center, the long, narrow window is actually the Quaderna 476 mirror by Zanotta, designed by Superstudio, whose texture echoes that of the sky.
For the street lighting we have added repetition of the LBB01 lamp created by Lina Bo Bardi for the Casa de Vidro, which enters the Nemo catalogue this year.
Two hints of nature: My Moon My Mirror by Diesel Designers for Moroso is a mirror in tempered, silver-coated glass, screen-printed with a photographic image. The birds are a design classic, the Eames House Bird (by Charles and Ray Eames), produced by Vitra.
The urban panorama is completed with the Tramonto a New York sofa, a design icon of the 20th century by Gaetano Pesce, reissued in a limited edition by Cassina.
On the opposite side, the AJ52 design in essential wood with a top covered in leather, designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1952 and reproduced in 2018 by Carl Hansen & Søn. Here it is combined with the Troy chair by Marcel Wanders for Magis.
