SUSTAINABLE DESIGN
Molteni&C new home concept, conceived by Vincent Van Duysen on stage at the 2022 Salone del Mobile.Milano. Light becomes an integral part of the design of the space, because it modulates the way the architectural composition is perceived and expressed.
"The home aspires to holistic well-being and to organic playfulness”
Living is once again central to every corner of the home. A theater of life experienced, where the quality of the home environment is the key premise for planning the various rooms: increasingly more versatile, multifunctional, able to adapt and mould itself to a second usage. An idea of a cosy, reassuring and welcoming home.
In textiles he prefers light and earthy colors and material patterns that highlight the rounded shape of the cushions. Hence Dadirri by Marta Ferri, which the designer defines as “a textile collection that aims to find the ideal combination between quiet contemplation and close attention to the natural world around us, a homage to the warm colors of the earth and its infinite shades. A harmonious mechanism that brings neutral tones together, starting from greys, beige and camel, superimposing them in net contrast to bright colors such as moss green, yellow ochre and rust”. For a home to be “felt”, soft and real. To be wrapped around itself, like a dress made to measure.
Think of homes marked by transparency, organized with light-weight partitions and wide outward-looking verandas and terraces: thresholds, open spaces halfway between indoors and outdoors, spaces that are private but in direct contact with light and Nature. The Molteni&C|Dada 2022 narrative project proposes a home with a well-defined style, with no overlapping, where the decoration stems from the aptness and the harmony of the forms: more rounded, soft and enveloping.
“Search for light for a never-ending dialogue with space and with human beings. The products are conceived for revival, to live again and mitigate that sense of precariousness, to search for pleasure and happiness and to fully embrace Nature: air, light, oxygen”.
The concept of comfort is also visually translated in the tactility of the materials. Our eye is guided on every curve while a great feeling of calm emanates from the whole range. The notion of protection, of shelter, is very important in my work and I think the collection reflects that well. We are enveloped in these fluid forms as if we were inside a cocoon in which we would like to live ever.
And a dialogue between the structural and the mobile furniture, which become soloists within the home. Vincent Van Duysen is fond of pure, sensual-feeling material finishes. Pale and material woods, such as natural oak and eucalyptus, handbrushed or with visible grain, to create unique surfaces, live to the touch. It proposes a coherent space, in which every detail is part of a unitary principle that animates the project. In this approach, the furnishings and the modular units become protagonists in the layout of the rooms.
“It’s a hymn to ethereal design, inspired by the great pavilions of the modernist era. Dynamic spaces characterized by the lightness of the lines, skillfully combined with details and materials that create softly shaped products”.
