In comparison with the town outside – the lively, picturesque harbour under the Mediterranean sun, this apartment resembles the black and white pages inserted in a colourful book. Calming contrasting tones in the day zone at the upper level are confronted in Makintoshean way with the pastels of the lower, more intimate space for sleeping, contemplation and relaxation.Location:
A simple 90º rotation gives a completely new function to a broken fan. Maintaining the purity, strength and stability of its original industrial design, the tubular steel frame becomes a very stylish bag holder for a very stylish girl. Or a coil holder for a stylish granny. A ball holder for a sportsman. A fruit or a plant basket. The protective net makes the objects for everyday use easily accessible, while providing them from disorder and falling out. The addition of a simple slab of black polished wood gives to the fan frame a new quality. It becomes a club table in the best Breueresque tradition of cantilever tubular steel furniture – simple, elegant, and a little bit different.
One single element – a granite wall – structures the volume of this pastry shop. It curves gently to define and generate spaces and movements. The stairs grow out of it, it turns into sitting bench, becomes the serving bar and continues its flow as a gallery.
IR’O brings its factory to Construmat Fair. A big piece of IR’O emerges from the bucket brought from the plant, announcing the stand from far away. It transmits the idea of moulding, brings the material to the visitor and suggests a variety of uses. The central piece materializes as a light plate; numerical control perforation turns it into a rain of IR’O drops that falls like a vertical lattice, to be transformed into a kitchen bar for attending the public, with a sink full of show-objects, game pieces made of IR’O. Flowing further, it becomes a solid volume and serves as a bank, inviting to sit and play. An extended (pan)tone guide made in IR’O surrounds the central piece, containing illumination and graphic technical information. The design contemplates the minimization of external elaboration and the possibility of dismantling the elements and adapting them for successive fairs.
Gianni Ruggiero
Meandering through different materials and their formal logics, playing with loops and reflections, the project explores sensuality which defines the corporate identity of the SLA CRÉATION brand of cosmetics in all scales of commercialization, from display case to boutiques, including the DGTs, furniture and fittings, stands and shop in a shop.
The stores were developed typologically as shop in a shop, “tube” and “boutique” / flagship store. MNA designed furniture and expositors for the small and the big “ring”, expanding and varying spatially their limited area.
