Designers make gentle work at Lake Como Design Pageant 2024, revisiting heritage traditions

Now in its sixth version Lake Como Design Pageant, organised by Wonderlake, presents a digestible variety of occasions within the metropolis and across the lake. Curated talks and tasks are hosted in historic areas, together with a Renaissance villa and a medieval municipal constructing. One explicit spotlight is a smaller web site that has been reworked right into a meditative area that solutions the decision of this yr’s theme: ‘Lightness’.

Within the metropolis

Within the medieval city corridor ,Palazzo del Broletto, guests in contrast a number of 28 chairs, created between 1924 and 2024. Curated by competition organisers, ‘The Type of Lightness’ exhibition aimed to spotlight the distinction between the heavier weight of a physique that occupies a chair and the lightness of the chair’s type and the supplies employed to create it. The oldest was the ‘Wassily Lounge Chair’ designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925; impressed by a bicycle body, this minimal Bauhaus icon is a real instance of timeless design.

Across the nook from the primary sq. was a collective exhibition on the San Pietro in Atrio. The theme of lightness was interpreted by designers resembling Michele de Lucchi, Mario Botta and Rome-based designers Naessi Studio by utilizing a standard engraving methodology to create limited-edition prints. This collaboration with Como-based specialist printer Lithos aimed to discover the thought of lightness on paper.

On the Spazio Natta, Erlands and Bai Bai emitted waves of calm with their venture ‘8 Days of Lightness’. The results of Erlands’ methodical examine of rituals, right here lightness was translated as a vacation spot reached by meditation and motion utilizing collectable ‘EB WeightLights’ created by Bai Bai and envisioned by Erlands.

On the lake

Web site-specific installations merged with the Sixteenth-century grounds and the structure of the Villa del Grumello. A number of designers and artists of the Modern Design Choice curated by Giovanna Massoni stayed on web site or close by, and the group spirit was evident as members visited one another all through the week. Each the general public’s and members’ curiosities had been piqued. In one of many annexes, Yellowdot’s Bodin Hon and Dilara Kan offered their tableware collection ‘Hatch Eggserve’, that includes repurposed eggshells in clear disks and cell brass arms.

Sjang Niedwiesser’s recycled acrylic ground lamps, ‘Liquid’, illuminated a small chapel on the villa’s grounds, the modern design resembling barely melted plastic, that undulates to create depth and dimension.

Contained in the villa, the ‘Sister Moon’ chair of Francesco Manfredi and Tommaso Lorenzini, AKA, Dalmoto, was impressed by the lightness mirrored off the moon, utilizing a quartz and marble combine for the seat again, boucle for the upholstery and a crescent moon form for the seat; the designers merged totally different points of our notion of the moon to develop a cushty chair.

Color was usually used to transmit the thought of lightness, from the matriarchal ceramics entitled ‘Mom Hearth, Sister Hearth’ by Ilaria Bianchi, whose venture used ceramics to discover the theme of the load of the physique and interior lightness. Then there’s Jonathan Bocca’s ‘Barefoot’, a playful set up of paper chairs that specific lightness by emotion led to by joyful colors. Bocca used a cloth strongly linked to his house city of Lucca in Tuscany, which is historically identified for paper making.