2010, Private client
Charging device for electric vehicles
 
Aluminum, Polycarbonate, LED lights
245 x 18 x 44 cm

Designing a device to charge electric vehicles means to create, through an object, a system that changes our relationship with the environment.

As a matter of fact, the electric charge reduces old systems` harmful emissions, noises and high costs, thus producing cleaner air, silence and space.

"PS power station" explicitly represents a new positive and environmentally sustainable way of thinking. 		  The iconography of the product’s identity could then be inspired only by natural world and, more specifically, by vegetable kingdom with its arborescent forms.

What guided every step of this project was the need to set up a system that could be installed in different locations and included in any environment.

 

 

 

 


2010, Horm
Table
 
Wooden Mesh, steel, glass
250 x 100 x h 72 cm

"Lieve" is the first product to be created with Wooden Mesh.

From the evolved concept of wood, has born the idea of re-designing a product in which wood itself had had historically an important role. We then decided that the perfect model to start with was a table, since in this essential object wood is byword for tradition, strength and value.		   Therefore, it was possible to work on the traditional structure of a wooden table - a product commonly perceived as “serious” - and lighten it.
The Wooden Mesh – a wood that has undergone a metamorphosis to become fluid - replaced the “old” wood to conceptually support the table. The tabletop seems to float above the fabric and, for just one moment, the law of gravity doesn`t exist.

 

 

 

 


2010, Personal research
Composite fabric
 
Felt, wood
Various sizes

Transforming wood, making possible that not only it could be flexible or soft, but it could also behave exactly like a cloth, was the idea behind the project.

To turn wood into fabric we had to break the continuity of its surface, which we obtained by dividing it into pieces. Wood, organized as in polygons, was then coupled with the fabric, which acts as a support and a binder at the same time.

This is how we created "Wooden Mesh", a compound – realized through a high-tech patented process – which combines a rigid material (parent material) to a flexible support (secondary material).		   The goal was to move beyond the hand-crafted production to create an industrial product which had a more suitable cost for the market. This was possible thanks to the major contribution of Alberto Martinuzzo, founder of Albeflex and “father” of the soft wood.
Now the two-dimensional surface of a piece of wood has been completely transformed to become as smooth and soft as fabric.

 

 

 

 


2010, MDF Italia
Free standing modular storage system
 
Wood, glass
117 x 39 x h 43 cm (Single Module)

When, with Marco Merendi, we had to face the concept of a storage system, we immediately shared the idea to create a structure which, in terms of composition and use, would have the least possible constraints and the highest management flexibility.   "N.E.S. is a free-standing modular system obtained combining two basic modules that match, overlap and intersect to create endless configurations.

 

 

 

 


2009, Personal research
Outdoor lamp
 
Polycarbonate, fluorescent tube
Ø 3 x h 40 cm

Lighting in green areas has always been a deeply fascinating subject. The delicate light filtering through the vegetation has given me the idea of placing a light source inside the crown of a tree.   You only need a fluorescent work lamp powered by an integrated small photovoltaic panel: the lamp is charged by the day light and glows at night, drawing a small “dash” of light between the leaves of the tree.

 

 

 

 


2008, r&dlab - Michele Ruffin Creative Group
Interior design of the Milan showroom
 
Jacroki™ by Okinawa, 3M™ OLF-Optical Lighting Film, 3M™ film for lane markings

The design of the r&d lab showroom, commissioned by Michele Ruffin, started from the characteristics of the location: a room with a small amount of natural light.

The quality of artificial light was therefore of paramount importance.
The idea was to create a luminous ceiling, made with the OLF film by 3M™, as if it were a large skylight, with the aid of specific lamps to adjust the color temperature of light.		   This solution allowed me to artificially recreate the feeling of being under a sky whose light was changing rapidly from cold and biting, as during dawn, to warm and enveloping, as during sunset.
We wanted for the rest of the showroom to retrace the history of r&d lab: from the walls covered with Jacroki, a biodegradable material made from cellulose, to the floor made of reflecting materials by 3M™.

 

 

 

 


2008, Mobileffe
Bed, nightstands, pouf
 
Fabric or leather in different finishes
Bed: 244 x 180/200/220 x h 80 cm - Nightsands: 40 x 50 x h 32 cm - Pouf: 40 x 80/100/120 x h 32 cm

The product designed for Mobileffe represents a system in which each item - bed, table and pouf - should not remain in a fixed position, as often happens, but can be freely purchased, moved and positioned following space and utilization needs.  

 

 

 

 


2007, Horm
Cupboard
 
Wood, steel, wood and fabric composite
192 x 46 x h 96 cm

Before the automatic closing mechanism was invented, it was enough to tilt the axis of rotation of a door to make it shut by itself. A solution so simple, direct and of great functionality cannot fail to be extremely fascinating.

The meeting with Luciano Marson, founder of Horm, has allowed this great idea to come back to life, thanks to a technologically advanced material: a composite consisting of two sheets of wood paired up with a layer of synthetic fabric put in the middle.		   The design process of this patent has led us to find a solution that possessed a lightweight nature: the addition of materials was reduced to a minimum, the product took on the characteristics of a folded sheet of paper and, consequently, the shutter`s structure and functioning was brought to their essence.


The shutter, in fact, is made with a composite sheet, which is only 2.2 mm thick. This sheet - duly engraved and bent - also works as a hinge for the open/close mechanism of the shutter itself which allowed us to get rid of the traditional hardware.
The seductive detail of the open/close mechanism, thus, has to be picked out mainly in the adopted technological solutions, in the very movement of the shutter itself and in its delicate mechanism.

 

 

 

 


2007, Horm
 


Design of the stand for the Salone del Mobile in Milan in collaboration with Luciano Marson and Giulio Ridolfo.  

 

 

 

 


2007, Segno
Wall lamp
 
Metal
Large: 19,5 x 19,5 x 10 cm - Small: 11 x 11 x 7 cm

"Ta-ta" was born as a lamp with a strong architectural inspiration.

The installation of the lighting is often designed and realized after the architectural project, both in a new planning and a renovation.		   In these situations, it is interesting to have a lamp that is fully integrated with the architecture and in which the light is the only protagonist, leaving a secondary role to the fixture.

 

 

 

 


2007, Segno
Pendant lamp
 
Metal
Ø 4 x h 88 cm

"Forma" is the result of an analysis based on the actual production of the buyer.   It had therefore to be a low cost lamp, made through a single process which started from a semi-finished industrial product.
The most immediate solution, consequently, was a very simple mechanical process done on metal pipes to reduce progressively their diameter so that they take on a conical shape.

 

 

 

 


2006, Personal research
Upholstered pouf
 
Fabric or leather

The coating of upholstered products is often custom made, thus generating a significant amount of waste materials. Therefore our goal was to be able to coat upholstered products avoiding waste and using the excess material.   The surplus of fabric or leather can be folded in different ways: with this method you can get interesting results that highlight the quality and the richness of products.

 

 

 

 


2006, Toshiba
Strategic Research
 


This project represents a strategic research for Toshiba which has pressed for a possible entry into the European mobile phone market.
It was therefore necessary to address the study of all the types of mobile phones on the market: the candybar, the slider and the clamshell.		   The power of these communication tools and their high-tech content are a well known and metabolized reality by users.
It was, therefore, more interesting to propose an aesthetic identity based on qualitative thinking, then working on the casing of the mobile phone, namely the colors, the materials and the finishes, always keeping in mind the “personal” relationship with the user and their direct physical contact with the object.

 

 

 

 


2005, Personal research
Tray
 
Chemically etched metal
39 x 25 x h 3 cm

Chemical etching is the process of cutting and engraving metal plates following a drawing.
This makes it possible to use the sheet of metal like if it was paper: it can be cut into the desired shape, it can be engraved with pre-fold signs and decorated.		   "Jamina" is a tray created from a thin steel sheet subjected to a single manufacturing process.
The design etched on the metal object allows to bend the surface, to explicit its three-dimensional structure and to decorate it. The fold lines have been specifically designed to generate a strong tension and, therefore, a curvature of all its surface. In particular, the concave top is what makes the product functional.

 

 

 

 


2002, Dainese
Strategic research
 


The project is born from a strategic research with Dainese.

The company needed new ideas to give more character and recognition to their technical sportswear.


Therefore we first had to analyze the type of market, user and technical requirements.
The results showed the possibility of working on the motorcycle jacket, because it resulted as either the most popular item and the less characterized.		   The motorcycle jacket has very high technical and quality standards. Hence, the idea to explain its function as a highly advanced "shell" for the rider`s passive safety: the protections - previously hidden inside the jacket - have then been moved outside to be visible.

Then, we had to define the aesthetic identity of the jacket. Working on the protections in terms of quality, colors, materials and finishes, we tried to give these essentially technical elements their own aesthetic language.


It was essential to identify some archetypes, some "links" to our memory: the chitinous exoskeleton of the insects, the body decorations of tribal warriors, the armors worn by ancient warriors.
Hence the name: "Linking Protection".