Dreaming in the Bubble
Via Montenapoleone
The Dreaming in the Bubble installation presents to the public the new line of seats by Luca Trazzi, designed for Iplex Design, a company specialized in transforming methacrylate into furnishing elements.
The chairs, shaped like hemispheres with circular openings resting on the ground by means of flared bases, dialogue with the surrounding architecture of the building located in via Monte Napoleone, a theater of history both in the Napoleonic and pre-Risorgimento eras, in whose cloister it is said there was a well whose water coming from a spring had healing properties for the eyes.
They offer the public a nest in which to isolate themselves and admire in a comfortable position the light design show created by multicolored bubbles projected on the walls that make the sixteenth-century architecture light within an immersive, dreamlike, magical landscape.
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The Project
And if the circular line recalls that of the well, the bright colors, with a strong perceptive and emotional impact, playfully evoke the magical atmosphere of fairy tales where a prodigious source is often present.
The iridescence, the changeability and the apparent fragility as well as the perfection of the geometric shape and the variety of optical phenomena of reflection and refraction that affect the thin sheet of the soap bubble have fascinated artists and scientists, who in the past have adopted it as an attribute of vanitas, transience, lasciviousness but also enchantment, magic, dream.
In contemporary design and art, the hemispherical shape found wide expression in the 1960s: think of Vico Magistretti's Eclissi from 1965, Mario Merz's igloos from 1967, Aarnio's Bubble Chair from 1968.
Today, where technical perfection and originality of ideas are combined with eco-sustainability, recycling and circular economy as guiding principles for transforming elements into products, these chairs also satisfy another design criterion, that of upcycling the original idea, recovering a pre-existing mold, originally intended for the production of a component for industry, and transforming it into the design object par excellence, the seat.
These chairs are made of methacrylate, an innovative and eco-sustainable material, totally recycled and recyclable.
They are an example of excellence of Made in Italy, and in particular they bear the unmistakable signature of Studio Trazzi, characterized by a playful, welcoming style, with immediately recognizable shapes and bright colors, all in a design line that favors a clean, essential line in favor of high technical quality.
