INCALMO
April 9th — 14th
Milano Design Week
Fondazione Lighea Onlus
Via Santa Marta 15, entrance to the public Via San Maurilio, Milan

From the combination of the “gentle kindness of soft projects” with Murano blown glass and tempered glass, a collection of objects with a unique flavour is born in which contrasting tactile qualities establish a new dialogue: between hot and cold, soft and hard, shiny and opaque. These opposing aspects characterise the release of a collaboration between Colleoni Arte and Purho, world premiered at Milan Design Week 2019. Entrusted to the creativity of the architect Filippo Feroldi, Holo and Magus – respectively a series of tables and chandeliers shaped into new, geometrically rigorous forms, together with the new table version – will be presented in the spaces of the Lighea Onlus Foundation in the 5vie Art + Design district transformed for the Milanese event into a immersive environment characterized by warm colours, velvets, linens, silks with a variety of forms and textures. A dialogue between produce and environment, which tells of long investigations into places where the worlds of fabric and glass meet. A “Incalmo” — hence the name of the installation inspired by the technique of joining several pieces of blown glass — of skills and know-how deriving from the long association with Purho and Colleoni Arte from the world of high craftsmanship, bespoke interior design, artistic workshops and historic furnaces for a new way of home decoration.