Hotel furnishings
Hotel la Filanda, Uggiano (LE), Italy, 2014
Client: Private
There are many ways to work with the past, each of which seeks to highlight a specific quality of the “before”: tradition, patina of time, memory, the value of the techniques and past cultures. For this design we had to work in a context in which recent history has left deep traces. It was easy to fall into the temptation of the replica, the simulation of what no longer exists, although client’s request was including new activities and lifestyles. In these conditions, we thought to work on a evocative level, that allows to make visible, where necessary, the history of the place through some design choices (the use of materials, the story of the culture that generated the place). The furnishings we designed included these ideas, keeping the functionality suitable for a temporary hospitality, and at the same time evoking, through details and materials, the recent history of a place. For this reason the choice falls on the use of few materials (iron rods, tempered glass, mixed fabrics, wood).