18 POCKETS

 

Milan Design Week 2023

 

 

 

Giopato & Coombes Gallery

Via San Maurilio 19, Milano

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Designing is always an open dialogue between ourselves and the inspirations we encounter when we create. The site-specific installations come to life from unique suggestions. Each project reinterprets the light and the materials of our collections, as concrete manifestations that crystallize poetry, innovation, and experimentation.

18 POCKETS

2023

 

A wunderkammer offering a journey into 6 years of research, inspired by the poem Il Cosario, which narrates how objects collected through the years are timeless emotional activators. Glassy components, metal inserts, tufts of cables, and brass buttons create compositions morphing into new and unique shapes through a system of weight and balance, where G&C iconic elements flow as light scribbles in a landscape of memories.

LIGHT ECHOES

2023

 

In the depths of shadow variations and light echoes, luminous sculptures born from our collections enliven the space between vertical angles and clean lines. The exhibition space discloses a supernatural matter, the wonderful combination of brass and glass, air, and reflections.

MIND FULL NESS

Seoul

2022

 

An immersive journey through Korean artworks discovering the essence of meditative reflection, creating a dialogue between the work and architectural space. With the site-specific installation Maehwa 매화, the project reveals the physical and emotional bond to South Korea, between heart, light, and glass.

INTO THE BLOOM

2022

 

In a park hidden from a bustling city, embraced by leafy branches laden with blossoms, all of a sudden a sense of deep connection with nature.
Tridimensional compositions that echo a nature in bloom, playing with extension and presence across space, to seize an ephemeral moment of wonder.

A LUNAR DAYDREAM

2022

 

Lunar talismans echo a still, crystallized landscape, as in a winter morning dawn when time stops and light draws a dreamy atmosphere, to get lost in. From the Moonstone collection, a magical, ethereal scenery.

FRAGMENTS OF INFINITY

2021

 

Harmony crystallizes in a fragment of time and space. Exploring the mind is like being suspended in an immense space where ideas gravitate freely. A dimension of pure energy where inspiration takes shape only if time stops for a moment. A moment where light meets matter, through compositions made of balance.

TO THE MOON AND BACK

2019

 

A far-away journey, between the surreal and the ordinary, on a black canvas of outer space.
Inside the Moon’s landscape, sand, craters and rocks respond to the wind’s motion, creating stardust gems and moonstone. Organic shapes and noble materials that become unique pieces back to Earth.

SUPERNATURAL DAYDREAM

2018

 

Sculptural chandeliers are suspended in an enigmatic reality, inspired by a magical encounter with the vegetation hidden in the Cansiglio Forest. The natural world glows through inflorescences and branches that draw geometrical compositions, in a landscape that becomes a daydream.