Introduction
These great energy boosters for interiors, Vitamine, are a new take on decorative wall furnishings.
Valentina Downey asked different women designers to interpret her idea of creating an innovative collection based on graphic composition and color that would result in wall sculptures with a strong decorative style.
In debates on design, decoration has long been considered incompatible with functionality and essentiality for its lack of cruciality and its superfluous nature.
With Vitamine, an effort to reconcile these seemingly opposite elements appears to have succeeded. In focusing their talent on adornment, the designers have demonstrated clearly that there is no contradiction between function and decoration.
Their projects open a new path to a territory that has yet remained unexplored, with enormous potential and ignored by the design world until now; it is a theme that is still wide-open for invention. And it's true that, aside from original works of art which are for the select few, the market offers very little in quality decorative wall furnishings despite the fact that these are accessories that lend character and personality to an interior.
For now there are four Vitamine, made by four women designers from four different European countries: Spain, Iceland, Italy and Germany. The projects reflect their cultural diversity in an exemplary way and give us an unusual perspective of the feminine touch.
The projects' diversity, connected by the use of the expressive language of modern design and its history, contributes to making the collection a rich and variegated one, where each of us will be able to find an element that perfectly suits his or her own interior. The common denominators are color and a predilection for simple geometric lines and shapes.
Patrizia Scarzella
Valentina Downey asked different women designers to interpret her idea of creating an innovative collection based on graphic composition and color that would result in wall sculptures with a strong decorative style.
In debates on design, decoration has long been considered incompatible with functionality and essentiality for its lack of cruciality and its superfluous nature.
With Vitamine, an effort to reconcile these seemingly opposite elements appears to have succeeded. In focusing their talent on adornment, the designers have demonstrated clearly that there is no contradiction between function and decoration.
Their projects open a new path to a territory that has yet remained unexplored, with enormous potential and ignored by the design world until now; it is a theme that is still wide-open for invention. And it's true that, aside from original works of art which are for the select few, the market offers very little in quality decorative wall furnishings despite the fact that these are accessories that lend character and personality to an interior.
For now there are four Vitamine, made by four women designers from four different European countries: Spain, Iceland, Italy and Germany. The projects reflect their cultural diversity in an exemplary way and give us an unusual perspective of the feminine touch.
The projects' diversity, connected by the use of the expressive language of modern design and its history, contributes to making the collection a rich and variegated one, where each of us will be able to find an element that perfectly suits his or her own interior. The common denominators are color and a predilection for simple geometric lines and shapes.
Patrizia Scarzella
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