Secondome found common ground with Padiglioneitalia and at this year's Milan Design Week present “I’m not weird, I’m limited edition” at Residenze Litta (Corso Magenta, 24). It was an experiment project where the participant designers explored the potential of mixing different materials such as glass and metals. The result is a collection, in numbered limited edition, which includes pieces that honor the craft and practice of contemporary artisanship.

UNBALANCE by ALESSANDRO ZAMBELLI

In the UNBALANCE project by ALESSANDRO ZAMBELLI, the candle wearing out results in a loss of weight that unbalances the structure, keeping the flame in the same point. Staring at the candle’s edge you can observe a static state thanks to an undeneath mobile structure. An inverted roleplay: no longer the flame going down but the candle going up.

UNBALANCE, ALESSANDRO ZAMBELLI, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

UNBALANCE, ALESSANDRO ZAMBELLI, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

UNBALANCE, ALESSANDRO ZAMBELLI, Foto courtesy Secondome

TRANSGENIC LIGHTS by MATTEO CIBIC

TRANSGENIC LIGHTS by MATTEO CIBIC is a series of three table lamps. The glass structures are inspired by the plant kingdom’s shapes, recognizable despite the genetic mutation process they seem to have gone through. The photosyntesis process gets reversed by those mutant “plants” that spread light instead of absorbing it. Cactus, spores, leaves, mix and melt their shapes to create new, hinting ones that enclose and reshape the light.

TRANSGENIC LIGHTS, MATTEO CIBIC, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

TRANSGENIC LIGHTS, MATTEO CIBIC, Foto courtesy Secondome

TRANSGENIC LIGHTS, MATTEO CIBIC, Foto courtesy Secondome

TRANSGENIC LIGHTS, MATTEO CIBIC, Foto courtesy Secondome

TIMELESS by CTRLZAK

Sand clocks were among the first instruments that man devised to visually perceive and measure time. CTRLZAK’s TIMELESS project utilises the properties of traditional materials in reviewing this nearly forgotten object. Inside the glass vial though instead of sand are found refined iron fillings that trickle from one compartment to the other, revealing the passage of time not only through their movement but also through the creation of a small spatial crystalline structure.

TIMELESS, CTRLZAK, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

TIMELESS, CTRLZAK, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

TIMELESS, CTRLZAK, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

TIMELESS, CTRLZAK, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

TIMELESS, CTRLZAK, Foto courtesy Secondome

"A STORY THAT DOESN’T GET TOLD" by MARCO RAPARELLI + GIOVANNI CASELLATO

MARCO RAPARELLI + GIOVANNI CASELLATO present a joint project. A STORY THAT DOESN’T GET TOLD is a site specific installation: an iron table, realized by Giovanni Casellato becomes the “canvas” for Marco Raparelli to work on, with drawings and two objects from the daily life, a glass and a bottle, made as if they came out of a comic book. Expanding his iconographic imagery to encompass reality, Raparelli gives life to a parallel universe, balanced between truth and fiction, rationality and irony, to remind the observer that things are never as they seem.

A STORY THAT DOESN’T GET TOLD, MARCO RAPARELLI + GIOVANNI CASELLATO, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

A STORY THAT DOESN’T GET TOLD, MARCO RAPARELLI + GIOVANNI CASELLATO, Foto courtesy Secondome

PHARAOHS by GIORGIA ZANELLATO

PHARAOHS by GIORGIA ZANELLATO is a collection of three vases made in glass and metal. Shapes, proportions and colors are directly inspired by those of the iconic Egyptian Pharaohs. Simple transparent glass cylinders contrast with bent metal fans that create strong effect of light and shadows. The metals used are inspired by type and color to those used in ancient Egypt recalling distant scenarios.

PHARAOHS, GIORGIA ZANELLATO, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

PHARAOHS, GIORGIA ZANELLATO, Foto courtesy Secondome

PHARAOHS, GIORGIA ZANELLATO, Foto courtesy Secondome

PHARAOHS, GIORGIA ZANELLATO, Foto courtesy Secondome

OLIMPIA by ZAVEN

The lamp OLIMPIA by ZAVEN is a 3D collage, made of a structure of metallic sheets and a cup of borosilicate opaque glass. An asimmetric table lamp, that rises up like a stairway and pushes up the light.

OLIMPIA, ZAVEN, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

OLIMPIA, ZAVEN, Foto courtesy Secondome

DEUS by 4P1B

DEUS is a couple of objects turned into machines by 4P1B. The brass structure is actually a mechanism that allows the object to be used. The pitcher can be tilted to pour its content, the candle holder can turn off the flame by pulling a lever that shuts down the oxigen income.

DEUS (pitcher), 4P1B, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

DEUS (candle holder), 4P1B, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

DEUS (candle holder), 4P1B, Foto courtesy Secondome

DEUS (pitcher), 4P1B, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

COEXIST by GIO TIROTTO

GIO TIROTTO realizes the project COEXIST: the MOD. GROUND globe and the MOD. SKY stellar map, two objects complementar as only Sky and Heart can be, where the transparent glass allows to look to the world and the stars in their entirety, overlapping far places close in the blink of an eye, underlining both their simmetries and differences. “Logic will take you from A to B, imagination will take you everywhere.” A. Einstein. Gio Tirotto challenges the geographic logic through these objects in which distances are nullified and infinite point of view cohexist creating a whole new imaginery.

COEXIST, GIO TIROTTO, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

COEXIST MOD.GROUND, GIO TIROTTO, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

COEXIST MOD.SKY, GIO TIROTTO, Foto courtesy Secondome

COEXIST MOD.GROUND, GIO TIROTTO, Foto courtesy Secondome

CLOU by ALHAMBRETTO

ALHAMBRETTO presents CLOU, the stop motion of an impossible instant. The nail crowls under the lightnes of the baloon. The moment becomes eternity, imprinted forever in the solid glass.

CLOU, ALHAMBRETTO, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

CLOU, ALHAMBRETTO, (Sketch), Foto courtesy Secondome

CLOU, ALHAMBRETTO, Foto courtesy Secondome