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Design, art and experiments with craftsmanship: Foscarini presents HABITUS, a new research project that takes shape in an exhibition and talks about the privilege of absolute creative freedom.

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At Foscarini Spazio Monforte during Milan Design Week 2024, Foscarini presents a new research project blending art, design, and lighting. Along the lines of the Battiti initiative in 2022, HABITUS is a work of pure research: a project that moves in the space of possibilities between the idea and the product, in which Foscarini freely comes to terms with creativity, granting itself the possibility of exploring different directions in the world of lighting, without heeding the limits logically imposed by serial production.

The experimental project HABITUS, in collaboration with the artist and designer Andrea Anastasio, ventures into the territories of fine tailoring and embroidery of Arun Jothi and Natalie Frost, the creative talents of Amal, who develop the refined and often daring decorations on haute couture garments, in India and Rome. Beads, sequins and strips of laser-cut PET are the materials with which Foscarini has come to grips, to observe the reactions of light when the curiosity of Anastasio associates it with their iridescent and unpredictable textures.

ā€œFor a company, it is a true privilege to be able to take the time to reflect, to weave connections and attempt creative incursions into other worlds. It is also a natural choice, for us: getting out of our comfort zone is a part of who we are.ā€

CARLO URBINATI
/ PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF FOSCARINI

The pieces that compose the HABITUS exhibition, which can be visited at Foscarini Spazio Monforte from April 16th to 30th, 2024, are not lamps; they are made by an artist by combining the know-how of a company with the refined skills of an atelier.

E-BOOK

HABITUS —
Foscarini Artbook series #2
Research & Developement

Download the exclusive e-book ‘Foscarini Artbook series — Habitus’ to delve deeper into this free exploration that combines the know-how of a company and the craftsmanship of an atelier, to imagine new expressive languages, meanings, and ways of experiencing light. Critical insights by Carlo Urbinati, Andrea Anastasio, and Kassia St. Clair. Photographs by Massimo Gardone and Karan Kumar Sachdev.

An immersive installation at Foscarini Spazio Monforte and a colorful and essential stand at Euroluce: two destinations at Milan Design Week to discover the new collections by Foscarini. New light ideas with a central focus on the brand’s design freedom driven by experimentation.

Long-term collaborations that move forward along with new partnerships, experimentation on shapes and materials, with a constant emphasis on the product and the expressive possibilities offered by various types of workmanship. During Milan Design Week 2023, Foscarini presents the new collections inside the updated framework of Euroluce (pav.11 – stand 106) and the FuoriSalone at Foscarini Spazio Monforte, with two installations created by Ferruccio Laviani.

/ (IM)POSSIBLE NATURES: a wild garden takes over Spazio Monforte

The installation (IM)POSSIBLE NATURES – designed by Ferruccio Laviani – is one of the go-to destinations of Milan Design Week 2023. An immersive installation where a natural world – made up of grass, herbs, and uncultivated plants – seems to have taken over. Visitors are invited to actively participate in the experience by getting carried away by imagination to an almost dreamlike context. In the middle the space: FREGIO, the new lamp designed by Andrea Anastasio. All around it: the greenery. An unexpected urban oasis within the frenzy of Milan Design Week. A space where human craftsmanship and the beauty of nature merge.

/ EUROLUCE 2023 — Hall 11 Stand 106

Euroluce 2023 will be very different from the previous ones, with a complete rethinking of the layout of the light fair based on a project by Lombardini 22. A loop-shaped plan will optimise routes taking into the pavillions elementsthat are typical of city spaces to foster the creation networks and community. An ideal city, enriched by interdisciplinary and experiential cultural content, exhibitions, talks, workshops and installations. Foscarini will present the product novelties in a stand designed by Ferruccio Laviani. Colorful, essential, functional: the layout is conceived to give full visibility and properly showcase each of the new models.

HALL 11 | STAND 106
18— 23 April 2023
H 9.30/18.30

 

Not only product: Foscarini participates in the schedule of cultural activities at Salone del Mobile 2023 with a special workshop that investigates light, Italian design and the craftsmanship behind the creation of some of the most beloved products in the collection.

Workshop | Shedding Light on Mastery
Exploring the Art and Craftsmanship of Foscarini

HALL 15 | Area Workshop
20 April 2023 H 16:00

/ PRODUCT NEWS

The narrative Foscarini conveys to its audience in the presentation of the new collections develops in three precise directions, all pertaining to the DNA of the company: the continuity of long-term collaborations with creatives and designers; the curiosity towards new languages and talents; and the research on materials aimed to solve project challenges and find new expressive possibilities.

Designed by Andrea Anastasio in collaboration with Bottega Gatti, FREGIO represents Foscarini’s attitude towards exploring new expressive languages in lighting design, also approaching different materials. Made of a section of a ceramic floral bas-relief, the lamp is presented as suspension and wall lamp offering light directed both downwards and upwards.

Rodolfo Dordoni presents two new projects of table lamps.

CHAPEAUX, A family of table lamps with three different diffusers of different shapes and materials (metal, blown glass, porcelain) that seem to float in the void sustained by a transparent pyrex base (image below).

And FLEUR a battery-powered wireless lamp that combines decoration and functionality: it illuminates but is also a small vase where you can put some water and a fresh flower.

Ludovica+Roberto Palomba continue their research on blown glass presenting HOBA, an organic-shaped family of lamps, asymmetric and irregular.

Foscarini also confirms its talent-scouting attitude, presenting PLI: a lamp designed by the young Danish designer Felicia Arvid, making her debut in the world of lighting.

And finally, the architects Oscar and Gabriele Buratti present ANOOR a wall and ceiling solution with a high emotional impact which plays with the two souls – technical and decorative – of light. An answer for all architects and interior designers who are looking for solutions that are at the same time decorative and functional.

A highly diversified package of novelties because each new Foscarini lamp is the result of a collaborative project that is built together, through dialogue and exchange, taking time. Giving oneself the pleasure of a process that does not disdain but welcomes error, reconsideration, and putting oneself back into play, with the goal of bringing distinctive design objects with character and meaning to the public, decorative lamps capable of transforming space, even when turned off.

Battiti is a project of pure experimentation on light, undertaken by Foscarini in collaboration with Andrea Anastasio and Davide Servadei of Ceramica Gatti 1928. It is an unconstrained experience that breaks away from conventional approaches, to open up new interpretations of light. In this context, light transforms into a material, engaging in a dialogue with ceramics.

In the project Battiti, presented in an exhibition at Fuori Salone 2022, light is used not to illuminate but to construct. As if it were a material: it generates effects, underlines forms and invents shadows. Because this is what Andrea Anastasio does when he gets his hands on the archives of the Gatti workshop, taking things apart and putting them back together, following the primordial instinct of someone who creates by desire, passion and necessity. He overturns traditional logic and reaches a new logic, interpreting history to give it a different direction and a different meaning. In this action of creation and discovery at the same time, Anastasio uses light, which also becomes a tool of dialogue with the observer. The openings of light, active and ā€œliveā€ elements in the bas reliefs and sculptures by Anastasio, are thus the beginning of a new relationship between the objects that contain them and those who observe them.

ā€œBattiti began with reflections on the age-old relationship between light and ceramics, a voyage that extends from oil lamps to religious shrines, and accompanies the form of vision in its many manifestations. Then another observation made its way into awareness, and I began to dissect ceramic panels from the castings of the Gatti archives in Faenza, breaking them down in a systematic way. Bringing light into this series of works was a slow process that came after an immediate intuition, as often happens when we want to convey the impact of a vision that has captured us yet eludes us at the same time, precisely because it is impalpable. So, once again, the dialogue between ornament and light becomes an opportunity for awareness of the role light plays in our everyday progress, and its ability to remind us of the illusive character of continuity, the futility of the search for completeness.ā€

ANDREA ANASTASIO
/ Designer

Research that is the result of the freedom that has always been an earmark of Foscarini, a company without a factory that thrives on ideas and imagination. This freedom makes it possible – and even necessary – to investigate the most suitable materials and production methods for the optimal development of every new idea. An approach that sets the company apart, combining industrial intuitions with an innate spirit of craftsmanship. An operation far from any commercial strategies, typical of the identity of Foscarini, a company that has always believed in innovation and the constant pursuit of meaning.

“Because it is only by getting off the beaten track that one can gain the courage to imagine new ideas. It is only by listening and sharing visions with people who belong to other worlds that one can understand where it makes sense to go. It is only by sharing the true passion of creators that we can grasp the meaning of the word design, in its purest, most authentic significance”

CARLO URBINATI
/ President and founder of Foscarini

E-BOOK

BATTITI —
Foscarini Artbook series #1
Research & Developement

Download the exclusive e-book about this research project, inspired by the sole desire to explore new expressive languages, meanings, and ways of experiencing light. Texts by Carlo Urbinati, Andrea Anastasio, and Franco La Cecla. Photographs by Massimo Gardone.

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