For the holiday season, Seletti, the internationally renowned Italian design company known for its unconventional and original approach, has created a selection of ‘out-of-the-box’ gifts designed to add color and make everyday environments special.
The offerings highlight, on one hand, well-established artistic paths with creatives like Marcantonio, featuring the new Kintsugi line and lighting projects Window Lamp and My Tiny Moon; Toiletpaper Home, with the Baroque Mirror; Diesel Living with Seletti, featuring table accessories Classics on Acid and Uto Balmoral with the lamp, mirror, and vase from the Circus collection.
Classics on Acid is a collection of extravagant porcelain plates, proposed in different colors that irreverently reinterpret a classic style of porcelain table decoration.
The Meltdown collection is an innovative tribute to British culture by JordanLuca, an Italian-English fashion design duo whose creations combine pop culture, contemporary art, and street culture. In their first collaboration with Seletti, Jordan Bowene and Luca Marchetto imagined novelties that combine two symbols of the UK: the traditional tea ritual and the wild culture associated with music festivals. The festive atmosphere transforms the classic tea service shape into surprising porcelain cups, saucers, trays, and teapots, whose rebellious forms are embellished with a fine touch of gold.
In turn, Marcantonio envisioned the Window Lamp, a lamp available in four different variations that breaks the limits of space by creating the illusion of an opening to a blue sky dotted with white clouds, echoing one of the brand’s characteristic patterns. The Window Lamp combines aesthetics and function and has a poetic character capable of illuminating any environment designed for relaxation, reflection, dreaming, or reading a book while imagining fantastic landscapes.
Born as a large sculptural and luminous moon slice to bring the magic of the moonlight indoors, My Moon has been transformed into a tabletop version, concentrating the functionality of design and the visual power of art into smaller dimensions. Once again, it is the kaleidoscopic natural world, in its immediacy and power, that inspires Marcantonio, whose artistic skills, functionality, and a gaze that never renounces fantasy and wonder blend in continuous research: My Tiny Moon, with its simple shapes capable of evoking imagery common to adults and children, brings a touch of poetry and imagination to various environments.
Always in search of emerging creatives to collaborate with and cultivate rich artistic understandings, Seletti’s first collaboration with Dutch illustrator-designer Tomas Schats – who shares with the brand a new and playful approach to design and art – ON-OFF, is a luminaire made of recycled cardboard that, with a focus on sustainability, evokes the warmth of domestic light.
Circus, the Baroque mirror from Toiletpaper Home, Kintsugi, an ode to Japanese art whose technique, in which porcelain is repaired with gold, transforms imperfections into unique and precious features, are other proposals from the Italian Seletti, for homes where the tone is always more!
By: Isabel Figueiredo
