SHAPED BY THE WIND
A collection of objects inspired by designer Trimarchi's childhood memory, when the Scirocco wind would lift papers and sheets, making them dance in the air, forcing everyone to take shelter in a protected room.
"In the old, large country houses in Sicily, almost hidden within the building and completely surrounded by other rooms, is the Scirocco room. Without windows, it is the only livable space when the wind that carries the sand from the African desert blows relentlessly for three days. The women would shut themselves inside to sew or cook, while the children reluctantly started their holiday homework.
It is an abstract place where you are forced to stay, but one that you can't wait to leave to return to everyday life."
Mario Trimarchi drew from this childhood memory to design the collection "La Stanza dello Scirocco." Table objects composed of small metal shards of various sizes, joined together at unstable points of balance. The shapes seem to be molded by a breath, ready to move again, dynamic. Like the papers he used to build castles with his brother, which would lift and dance in the air at the first gust of wind. Fleeting forms.
"This state of instability, of transitional space, of a place where you always expect the wind to slam the door open and scatter papers, notebooks, drawings, resembles many moments of contemporary living. The Scirocco room is where silence protects the objects. And the objects bask in their suspended momentary instability."
From the same inspiration came a small collection of jewelry, whose evocative names once again play on the idea of air in motion.
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