FENIX® materials and Arpa® surfaces are presented with a new look, characterised by decorative and inspiring aesthetics, in the project designed by Daniele Daminelli of Studio 2046.
A patrician palace featuring an eclectic and retro style, home to Studio 2046, becomes the stage where surfaces interact with unexpected furnishing objects: crystal pots, chinoiserie, exotic objects, animalier seats, and inlaid fireplaces. The result is an ironic but extremely sophisticated match, a play of suggestions that shows FENIX® materials and Arpa® high-quality surfaces under a new light. 
The project aims to raise curiosity among interior designers and decorators, disclosing how such cutting-edge materials – ideal for technical uses thanks to their features and performance–can also elegantly fit into the world of decor, product and furnishing accessory design.
Daniele Daminelli’s signature artistic research, made of rich and articulated aesthetics, recurs in the soft-nuanced scenography setup as well as in the material choices, stretching a common thread on this formal investigation.
“I test the gentle relationship between new generation products and objects belonging to past eras, in search of a sophisticated balance of different aesthetic codes. – Daniele Daminelli says – I bring fragments of history into the future.”
This project is presented as a three-dimensional mood board in which the brands’ materials and surfaces, taking linear but also curved and articulated shapes, dialogue with fabrics and more classic materials such as ceramic, glass, brass, and bronze.
Geometric and decorative elements, created using FENIX® and Arpa®, interact with a selection of objects belonging to different historical periods. Ancient statuettes, precious ceramics and ancient chandeliers are combined with coloured and material volumes that take on different functions and become plinths, frames, columns, and structural elements.
FENIX® innovative materials in seven colours – Giallo Evora, Viola Orissa, Argento Ducat, Oro Cortez, Blu Fes, Verde Kitami, Rosso Namib – are alternated, thus highlighting their properties like the extremely matte appearance and soft touch. Inspired by the history of architecture and worldwide landscapes, colours blend in a keen refinement together with a universal soul.
Arpa® surfaces are presented in a vast selection, including Smili White in Rorà finish, which varies according to the light orientation, Rosso Puraj, one of the 36 colours of the Colorsintesi family using Bloom, a technology that has increased the renewable content in the “core” of materials.
Arpa® also reveals itself through the Deep Surface Tuet combined with Caravella Dark decor, featuring an exclusive haptic effect, and through Nabu in Urban finish, which reinterprets stone, a particularly fine material. Nabu is part of the Vis Collection that is designed for wear resistance thanks to mineral components, and for a better tactile experience thanks to organic elements.
After the “Returning to Villa Casa Bianca” project, presented last year within the spaces of a historic villa in Como, thanks to Daniele Daminelli’s sartorial approach, FENIX and Arpa give shape to a strong charismatic crossover.
FENIX® and Arpa® are available in Australia through nover.com.au
For more information on FENIX®, visit fenixforinteriors.com.au
For more information on Arpa®, visit arpaindustriale.com
