MOODS 2011
“Beauty will be our salvation,” wrote Dostoevsky. "Who will save beauty?”
Design, ideas, innovation. In a harmonious quest for a personal and original aesthetic language. The freedom to mix elements and materials, to layer decorations and colours, creating a unique style with inventive verve in a constant play of give and take. Bold graphics, optical design and micro-geometric patterns change rhythm; they repeat and multiply, are enhanced by anomalous chromatic intrusions and are transformed into original puzzles.
Contrasts and illusions that trick our senses. Floral motifs and classic decorations are delicately developed in an alternating evocation of past and present, without ever appearing nostalgic. Lines, marks, messages and subtle strokes, blurred and eroded, appear dematerialized in their neutrality. The twentieth century, with the wealth of its avant-garde movements, provides us with a plethora of splendid decorative inspirations with a modern flair. Stylised flowers, sprouts and bulbs, as well as the rigorous construction Deco and Bauhaus motifs. Elements of urban decoration, metals, cement, stone, walls and prospect stimulate new solutions for large spaces, transforming themselves into three-dimensional relief effects or profound incisions, modulated by plays of light and shadow. They are embellished by metallic intarsia effects, colourful veining and rusty streaks.
Scrapes and cracks invent rudimental imaginary material effects. Inspired by nature, wood, cork and rattan surfaces predominate. Sometimes in the original rough forms or polished and smoothed, wavering between stark austerity and sense of warmth and protection. Inspired by textiles, intertwining, woven effects, netting and tangles appear as if solidified on surfaces, imperfect and unique. Upholstery and carpet patterns, lace and macramè narrate stories of ancient tradition. Primitive multiethnic inspirations blend with refined expressions of advanced art and culture liberating the imagination and daring to vaunt bold colours, testaments to parallel universes, the kaleidoscope of our age.
MOODS 2010
Connecting the minimal, the realistic and the natural with the ornamental, the imaginative, the colorful and the extravagant.
A creative journey in which ideas, decorations and colors cross paths, overlap and integrate in the most unexpected of ways to establish and impose new solutions. The stimuli that shape future trends show multiple values that may be interconnected to enhance the aesthetic quality of products and their functionality. To increase the power of seduction, elegance and prestige. To address needs for uniqueness and globalization.
To promote long-lasting, sustainable development, of the essence in the new social awareness that embraces the values of sobriety, ecology and ethics. Uniqueness and individuality become established and influence lifestyles. The return of a desire for personalized spaces, tiny customized havens to be interpreted according to mood, to be defined according to the innovate codes of Moods 2010.