The collection coordinated by Adele Martelli, art director of the historic Marche brand, offers a refined and complete total living and total dining project. Thanks to the new lamps and sofas collections, environments are enriched with light, softness, and noble materials that are skilfully mixed in a play of reflections and transparencies, of textures and colours that only glass can enhance.
Emmanuel Gallina presents the Vertige table, a piece that skilfully plays with transparency and deepness and gives a strong sensation of vertigo. A fascinating contrast emerges between the immaterial lightness of glass and the consistency of wood, which perfectly accommodates the shape of the perforated top, which is suspended within the structure and evokes the sensation of vertigo. The effect of translucency, slightly mitigated by bronze or smoked glass, highlights the remarkable perception of visual delicacy.
Transparency, geometry, tactile sensations, and visual perceptions remain the leitmotiv of the Echo project by Marcel Wanders, which returns again this year with a new member, the bedside table, and new textures performed in the Echo Line collection.
The pattern is here reinterpreted in a more contemporary, bourgeois way. Repeated parallel lines of different widths dissect the glass panels, giving a pleating effect of fine craftsmanship, noticeable from every point of view.
The Shif mirrors family by Francesca Lanzavecchia expands with new formats. Plastic and mono-material, these mirrors arise from the union of orthogonal lines and blunt surfaces. Glass creations that are simultaneously rigorous and dynamic, compact and elastic, perfectly balanced by a frame dramatized by vertical grooves.
The Caadre mirror, a Fiam Italia bestseller designed by Philippe Starck, gets dressed in new metallic colours that play with light and give to the refined curved glass frame a new elegant, contemporary aspect. Three bright colours, Champagne, Greige, and Vulcano, allowing the mirror to speak different languages and come into a perfect harmony with the most exclusive spaces.
This Weber introduces the Condense sofa, a sophisticated addition to the Fiam Italia collection, inspired by the sinuous and subtle curved glass elements that have always distinguished the company. A collection with endless possibilities of customization, including individual sofas and modular elements such as chaise longue and pouf. Condense, sleek and understated, creates a cosy atmosphere with its low, pitched armrest that culminates in the back side with a tiny flip, perpetuating the common thread of lightness embodied by the slim-design feet. The collection fits perfectly into any space and style, offering a harmonious balance of refined aesthetics and enveloping comfort.
After two years, the partnership between Fiam Italia and Patrick Norguet returns with TYPE, a collection of small tables designed in different formats. Three monotypes that, as with the artistic printing technique, produce a single specimen, the result of which is unique and unrepeatable, appreciable for its singularity. Coffee tables in which glass and solid wood can overlap to form new glyphs which convey innovative formal expressions, expressive combinations that with each use allow a new formal language to emerge.
The Halo coffee table, designed by Francesca Lanzavecchia, is a harmonious fusion of blunt and rounded lines. The glass surface, with its soft and sinuous appearance, contrasts elegantly with the rigor of the surrounding metal profile, like a rough gem set in its bezel. Designed to interact with each other in a play of overlapping and transparency, these side tables enhance the fluid rounded silhouettes of
the fused glass surface, reminiscent in tone of a precious stone. Glass is transformed into a vibrant, malleable substance, in opposition to the four legs and the supporting ring made of burnished brass, which accommodate and hold the table top, becoming the containing and characterizing element of the glass surface. The collection, which is also available in marble, is a direct expression of Fiam's excellence in craftsmanship, in which the precision and roughness of metal meet the sensual softness of glass.
Yonoh Studio has also explored and challenged the limits of curved glass, contrasting the softness of curved self-supporting forms with the solidity of the structure itself. The York side table interprets this research, combining the delicacy of glass with the texture of a marble element in a harmonious fusion of elegance and stability.
Another pleasant return is the collaboration with Meneghello Paolelli for their Stone table, a side-table designed not only to be placed next to the sofa, but also to be used as an inserted armrest cover. A product that stands out for its harmonious combination of shapes, materials and finishes, and that enhances the organic design of the tops which remind of the shape of natural stones. The side table is
presented in a single monolithic piece, featuring a glass top in metallic tones of black and bright brown, matched with a black and tobacco wood, supported by a black metal base. This combination gives the side table an almost transparent lightness, in which the base represents the shadow of the unit itself.
Gupica joins Fiam for the first time with a proposal that celebrates light and theatricality. Sipario, that is evocative name of this project, presents a modular system of hanging lamps, with glass components of various sizes that can be overlapped to create customized compositions, both vertical and horizontal. The curtain, an ambivalent symbol of beginning and end, acts as a partition between reality and the realm of imagination and creativity. When it opens, it envelops the audience with light and awe, transporting them to a dimension of dream and wonder. These chandeliers, which embody a suspended, transparent curtain, diffuse a gentle light, creating an evocative theatrical effect. The sinuous shapes of the glass imitate the fluid movements of drapery, enhancing Fiam's craftsmanship skills in three-dimensional glassmaking.
Ryosuke Fukusada introduces the Tau lamp, a modern and minimalist interpretation of the rare Japanese flower Sankayou. This flower, whose petals become transparent when exposed to dew under low temperature and high humidity conditions, recalls the elegance of precious glass objects. The three oval glass sheets are shaped to create three-dimensional soft curves, enriched with a delicate organic texture and assembled with minimal space between them. Hence, highlighting the levity and gracefulness of the design. The result is a fascinating and original product with a unique and refined craftsmanship aura.
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