The introduction text by journalist Porzia Bergamasco to the "Rising" catalogue.
"The interplay between the natural and the artificial, which engages each era relative to its own degree of progress, involves design in ever new forms and demands. Design is inherently rooted in the world and, as part of this relationship, is enriched by considering the extent to which the natural informs - and shapes - the artificial and vice versa. The response is the measurement of machine skills, the simulation of scenarios and processes, applications and the resulting aesthetics.
Embedding the entrepreneurial and artisan culture in a different design culture, where the experimental and the refined seek to achieve the new and the authentic. Carpanese responds to the need for long-term choices and draws on its own founding focus on wood. On its cultural, economic, environmental and, therefore, social value.
Valuing innovation, both in general and specifically, also means preserving and passing on the skills of artisans who, if employed in new approaches to design, can evolve and create a collective and not only corporate heritage for the future.
Hence, the timeless expressive power of the recent Carpanese Home collections. Aiming to create an atmosphere of suspended calm, enveloping volumes, fusion between the outside and the inside, and amalgamation between different environments. Places, both imaginary and physical, where you can blend in with your visions, and grow.
The result of connections rooted in today’s world, the transformation of material into a useful and attractive object, as seen throughout the long history of design, is more than ever a sum of values. Recognisable, shareable and tangible. In the current direction of the Veronese brand, the human touch takes centre stage, capable of blending cabinetmakers’ experience with designers’ sensitivity, adopting a slow pace consistent with the pursuit of quality and thoughtful change. This can be found in the high-quality, precious materials, in line with sustainable manufacturing processes. And it evolves in shared intentions with partners and supply chains, in zero-kilometre production and in the economy of resources.
It emerges in an appeal that transcends fashions and taps into intergenerational tastes. And it stays. With the quality of a joint,
the meticulous design of a structural detail, material generosity, and made-to-measure comfort. The poetry of the everyday.
Luxury, for Carpanese Home, indicates a path to the essential, becoming understated and sophisticated. Bearing choices and thought. It seems to remind us that, like nature, “things” surround us and build our world. That world in which we decide to mirror ourselves, reflecting on what could make our lives better.
– Porzia Bergamasco
Rising, Carpanese Home 2024 catalogue
Artistic Direction: Federico Peri Studio
Furniture collection designed by Giorgio Bonaguro,
Simone Bonanni, and Matteo Zorzenoni
Graphic Design: Designwork
Photographs: Silvia Rivoltella
Contribution text: Porzia Bergamasco
Creative coordination: AtemporaryStudio
