LUXURY LIVING
The circle of harmony Natuzzi Italia, the Made in Italy lifestyle brand, presents highlights of the latest collection. NATUZZI ITALIA’S current 2021/2022 collection comes to life within the Circle of Harmony, an inclusive space for participation and comparison between different design interpretations of the brand's DNA. In a world undergoing a process of total evolution, the brand’s Chief Creative Officer Pasquale Junior Natuzzi invited eight designers to redefine objects and functions in view of the new challenges of everyday life. To create a blend of experiences and design approaches that could propose different solutions and perspectives, while all sharing a unique and unmistakable trait: the ability to look beyond. To develop a response to a new concept of harmony as a balance for living in the domestic spaces by adapting them to different functions, facilitating the creation of a ‘new normal’ expressed in the motto Live the Transition – a transition that becomes opportunity and substance, comparison and vision.
“ We are all living with a feeling of constant change and transition towards something, a destination that appears blurred,” Pasquale explains. “The ability to embrace evolution and change and to be enriched by this evolution is an inherent instinct in Mediterranean culture, an inexhaustible source of inspiration for our collections. “It is precisely from this perspective that we have started this new journey, involving new designers to rethink the way we experience our homes, starting from contemporary living needs and enhancing them through the brand’s innovative design vision.” The designers involved focused on functionality, sustainability and well-being, starting a new Era of Harmony, once again under the banner of collaboration and sharing. The warmth of hospitality and the rediscovery of the rhythms of ‘slow living’, which the world is returning to and which Mediterranean culture has known for millennia, have inspired Lorenza
Bozzoli and Massimo Iosa Ghini in the exploration of wellness design. In the same way Sabine Marcelis, Marco Piva and Elena Salmistaro have faced the increasingly widespread need to design flexible furnishings capable of overcoming the boundaries of the internal space of the house in a multifunctional perspective, able to simplify everyday life. A new, multi-purpose harmony is expressed by the furnishings designed by Patrick Norguet and Formafantasma, responding to the need for home office spaces even in small apartments. And it is this micro-living, intended as an opportunity to explore innovative solutions without having to renounce the quality of craftsmanship and design, that inspired the project by Marcel Wanders studio in seeking a different way of thinking about the proportions between objects in the challenge. Thus, the Circle of Harmony confirms itself as a place of circularity, inclusiveness and participation. A place where union generates uniqueness.
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EUFOLIA MODULAR SOFA – MARCEL WANDERS STUDIO In their third collaboration with the Natuzzi brand – and part of the Circle of Harmony for the first time – Marcel Wanders studio presents the Eufolia sofa. Eufolia is a modular seating system which evokes the lightness of one of the most characteristic elements of the Apulian landscape: the olive leaf. An excellent interpreter of contemporary needs, the Dutch studio imagined a compact sofa in which the slightly flared design of the armrests and backrests gives the project a welcoming aesthetic, while responding to the need for multifunctional living areas with limited dimensions. With its elegant and minimal design, Eufolia is a surprising interpretation of the needs of contemporary living which require a different way of thinking about the proportions between objects.
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