I'm publishing today a quick and brief round-up of pieces I did for other publications about Versace and Diesel's home collections at Milan's Design Week.
Versace Wave
Gianni Versace’s shapes and volumes were often borrowed from tradition as the designer found inspiration delving deep into the past and subverting it. The late designer also delighted in the excessive ornamentation of Rococo, looking at history through the distorted lenses of his imagination and mixing sensuality with redundant opulence. Among the trademark symbols of the house there is the Baroque swirl, a graphic element that reappered also in the Autumn/Winter 2011-12 collection, in a snaky vine-like tendrils forming whiplash curls around body-con wool crepe shifts.
The same Baroque motif inspired the new key piece of the current Versace Home collection (that also includes chairs, tables and sofas), a dormeuse very aptly entitled “Wave”, derived from the ancient Roman triclinium, but filtered through Baroque and reinterpreted in a modern key. Available in bold pop shades such as acid green or electric blue velvet, the Wave - presented this week during Milan’s Salone del Mobile - is a sort of three-dimensional blown up curlicue that connects fashion and interior design.
“This is a great hint of what the new Versace Home Collection will be,” Donatella Versace, speaking about the Wave, told Dazed Digital. “When I created it, I wanted to mix fashion and design so that people could experience the true Versace lifestyle. I love it because it’s so innovative, glamorous and fashionable: it conveys the real essence of Versace.”
Successful Living from Diesel
The title of Diesel’s installation at Milan’s Superstudio Più - The Mythology of the Everyday - says it all. The brand presents new pieces from its Home Collection, entitled “Successful Living from Diesel” and including Foscarini’s lighting and Moroso’s furniture, as parts of a contemporary fable about relax, comfort and dynamic modern living.
Though the core of the installation is the “Textures” section with emphasis on the mix of casual and luxury fabrics used for interior design pieces, the most important piece of the Home Collection this year is Diesel’s “Social Kitchen”, designed in collaboration with historical top Italian kitchen manufacturer Scavolini. Imagined as the party room of the house, this modular space developed as cooking laboratory and meeting place, reunites the brand’s philosophy with Scavolini’s passion for research. The kitchen – completed by a line of free-standing, non-modular objects such as trolleys, tables and storage units – is based on contrasts between materials, including wood, glass, steel, metal and cement.
“We designed this kitchen making sure it featured all the trademark Diesel creative and style elements, injecting in it a vintage mood and lived-in feel,” Diesel’s Renzo Rosso explains. “Our style was then married with Scavolini’s modern technology and know-how. There is not another similar product on the market and I guess you can’t really describe it in just a few words, but you should definitely come and see it in Milan.”
Successful Living from Diesel, Superstudio Più, via Tortona 27, Milan, until 22nd April.
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