Osservatorio
“Osservatorio is a close look at design, which aims to give a voice to the design talents working in the city of Rome and the surrounding area. It is a mapping of what exists around us in the world of design.
It is a way of representing how many designers work in this place that is so dense with history and memories. It is the desire to be known and to make contact with those around us. It is a way of celebrating the diversity and variety of this city, to respond proactively to its incoherence and indifference.
It is the desire to take care of those who are just entering the world of design, but also to pay tribute to those who, in order to make themselves known, were often forced to move too far away from their roots. It is a chance to inhabit our territory.”
Domitilla Dardi
Festa
“Festa is the first part of this series, which features the beautiful ceramics by Coralla Maiuri along with lighting installations by Sabina Belfiore Lucovich.
Coralla Maiuri applies her impressive sensitivity to creating ceramics and porcelain that seem both unreal and familiar at the same time. It’s as if plates, bowls, cups, vases, sculptures and pots were little universes. Her dining collections are inspired by Renaissance and baroque art, by Italian craftsmanship and nature. The cups and pots are unique, unrepeatable pieces in which new ideas are explored.
Luminarie, the evocative design by Sabina Belfiore Lucovich, is an expressive exploration of light, constantly changing, uniquely defined and interpreted through patterns and small dots of light. Minimal, ethereal, hypnotic, silent forms made by hand with pure copper and micro LEDs. The inspiration came from a memory: the lights at local festivals in the towns of southern Italy”.
Domitilla Dardi
“Festa is the first part of this series, which features the beautiful ceramics by Coralla Maiuri along with lighting installations by Sabina Belfiore Lucovich.
Coralla Maiuri applies her impressive sensitivity to creating ceramics and porcelain that seem both unreal and familiar at the same time. It’s as if plates, bowls, cups, vases, sculptures and pots were little universes. Her dining collections are inspired by Renaissance and baroque art, by Italian craftsmanship and nature. The cups and pots are unique, unrepeatable pieces in which new ideas are explored.
Luminarie, the evocative design by Sabina Belfiore Lucovich, is an expressive exploration of light, constantly changing, uniquely defined and interpreted through patterns and small dots of light. Minimal, ethereal, hypnotic, silent forms made by hand with pure copper and micro LEDs. The inspiration came from a memory: the lights at local festivals in the towns of southern Italy”.
Domitilla Dardi
Territori
“An object can travel far through time and space, because material things tell our stories and survive after us. But when objects originate from a meeting between people, from the experience of those who design them and make them and from exchanging points of view, then the story they tell is always about their territories. The Cantiere Galli Design Osservatorio (Observatory) starts with a dialogue between territories of origin, of adoption, of affection and those that chose us”.
Domitilla Dardi
Territori is the second edition of Osservatorio, an exhibition this time featuring designs by two young Roman design studios: Studio Lunik and Manufatto. Both studios recognise the central role of craftsmanship in design and their work is the result of two different approaches to the Territory: one focuses attention on the presence of cultural contamination within a well-defined area of Rome, while the other interacts with a network of local craft traditions.
Studio Lunik, the collaboration between architects Federica Vazzana and Domenico Paparelli, develops independent designs, focusing on a creative approach based on traditions and multicultural exchanges in the urban context.
Manufatto, the designer duo made up of Ilaria Aprile and Davide Gallina, creates synergy between the designer and the craftsmanship of the artisan, which is the key element of their pieces.
“An object can travel far through time and space, because material things tell our stories and survive after us. But when objects originate from a meeting between people, from the experience of those who design them and make them and from exchanging points of view, then the story they tell is always about their territories. The Cantiere Galli Design Osservatorio (Observatory) starts with a dialogue between territories of origin, of adoption, of affection and those that chose us”.
Domitilla Dardi
Territori is the second edition of Osservatorio, an exhibition this time featuring designs by two young Roman design studios: Studio Lunik and Manufatto. Both studios recognise the central role of craftsmanship in design and their work is the result of two different approaches to the Territory: one focuses attention on the presence of cultural contamination within a well-defined area of Rome, while the other interacts with a network of local craft traditions.
Studio Lunik, the collaboration between architects Federica Vazzana and Domenico Paparelli, develops independent designs, focusing on a creative approach based on traditions and multicultural exchanges in the urban context.
Manufatto, the designer duo made up of Ilaria Aprile and Davide Gallina, creates synergy between the designer and the craftsmanship of the artisan, which is the key element of their pieces.
Forma
“Forma (form) is one of the most commonly used words in connection with the concept of design. The form of things, the form established by man and time, is one of the central features of design. And yet, after the formalistic drift of the 1980s and 1990s, the formal aspect of design encountered a period of strong criticism.
The speculative and conceptual design of the first decade of this century focuses attention on other aspects and the process of creation takes precedence, sometimes even at the cost of sacrificing form itself. In the field of industrial design, however, form has always remained central. Whether it follows function or not, form is the method through which objects enter into contact with us.
Two generations of product designers, Studio Angeletti e Ruzza and Giovanni Botticelli, carry the form project forward with rigour and consideration, telling Cantiere Galli Design’s audience what guides their choices and what is behind the final results of their work”.
Domitilla Dardi
“Forma (form) is one of the most commonly used words in connection with the concept of design. The form of things, the form established by man and time, is one of the central features of design. And yet, after the formalistic drift of the 1980s and 1990s, the formal aspect of design encountered a period of strong criticism.
The speculative and conceptual design of the first decade of this century focuses attention on other aspects and the process of creation takes precedence, sometimes even at the cost of sacrificing form itself. In the field of industrial design, however, form has always remained central. Whether it follows function or not, form is the method through which objects enter into contact with us.
Two generations of product designers, Studio Angeletti e Ruzza and Giovanni Botticelli, carry the form project forward with rigour and consideration, telling Cantiere Galli Design’s audience what guides their choices and what is behind the final results of their work”.
Domitilla Dardi