Foris – design illumination brand born of the meeting of the solid experience of its founders in the lighting concept sector and their passion for art and architecture – took part in Milan Design Week 2021, unveiling its new objects of light within the Design Variations 2021 event at Palazzo Litta.
Designed by Formidable Studio for Foris, the Stile collection arises from reflection on antique Venetian architectural tradition, extracting the windows from the building façades through an abstraction process that morphs the stone border into metal and captures the light of LED by reabsorbing it within.
There are three arches transformed into luminous suspended elements. Stile Veneziano recalls the rounded-arch windows from the 1200s; Gotico, with its peaked arches, bears witness to the cultural contamination of Venice with the Orient; Fiorito evokes the trefoil windows typical of a later historical period of the city.
Stile was inserted in the group project Sottrazione, curated by Paolo Volpato, and was set up on the ground floor of the historic Milanese palazzo. The luminous architectures, hung along a tubular structure located in the centre of the room, and served as a frame for the entire installation: the light descended on the objects from above, like a light rain, defining the geometries of the exhibition and becoming a vehicle of disclosure as well as an element of connection between the people and the surrounding space.
The narrative dedicated to Foris and its production, with a focus on the new items produced in 2021, was evident in the Metroquality showroom in Brera, where visitors had the opportunity to discover the extensive research founded on the culture of light and the technologies that allow interactions between the individual and the luminous object.
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Photography credit: Federico Villa
