Metalique bookshelf, 2024. Aluminium. Photo credit: Flavia Rossi
Serra Bassa
Metalique bookshelf is a new piece of the collection created especially for LCDF. The hallmark of the Metalique collection is the hand-turning process becomes both element and tool of narration, passage, and transformation. The return to the artisanal roots of this ancient decorative technique offers the opportunity to explore a relationship with production whose rhythms are marked by manual dexterity. Metalique strips the material of its original form with the aim of discovering beauty in absence. The products of the collection are characterised by absolute uniqueness as they are the result of human labour and processes not entirely controlled. The turned legs appear both firm and dynamic simultaneously, in a play of light that emphasises the material’s profile. The remnants, aluminium shavings left behind during the process, take on their own individuality as remnants of a unified body, laid at its feet. Metalique explores the unrepeatable through subtraction. What is taken away leaves a mark and emphasises what remains.
Chiara Pellicano & Edoardo Giammarioli / Photo credit: Flavia Rossi
Millim is a multidisciplinary creative studio, founded in Rome by Chiara Pellicano and Edoardo Giammarioli. Their focus is on the research and construction of new expressive forms capable of creating stable connections between culture, art, design, and communication. Millim Studio’s work is a process that extends from the exploration of the principles of material recovery and sustainable design. Each creation is the result of careful and conscious exploration, a harmony between form, function, and respect for the material. During the creative process, the entire life cycle of the material is considered: from origin to final destination, with particular attention to its environmental impact.A significant portion of the research is also focused on the aspect of material often referred to as waste: remnants of previous processes that remain unused, becoming production waste. The recovery of this material is a guiding thread that directs every decision and action of the studio. Representing a commitment to a mindful construction of value.