AD : HOW WAS YOUR EXPERIENCE IN DESIGNING MUTINA ’ S FIRST SHOWROOM IN MILAN . ANY OF YOUR FAVORITE ELEMENTS FROM THIS BEAUTIFUL SPACE YOU WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT ?
PATRICIA : Casa Mutina is an investigation on the domestic space that goes beyond the concept of a showroom : the project is designed to express the different languages of the designers , who work with the company , to dialogue and create invisible contaminations .
// below ; Casa Mutina , Milan , Italy by Patricia Urquiola Photograph courtesy : Studio Urquiola
Casa Mutina is based on a modular system of panels which , however , is not explicitly perceived , but is always understood . This is the intention and the beauty of the project . Not only the paneling , but also the boiserie and plasters are designed as a system to be inserted into the modules and to evolve . In reality , the only real fixed elements in the space are the bookcase , the kitchen and the long wooden runway that crosses the rooms ’ enfilade .
It is a house , in which the play of natural shades expresses a gentle approach to matter rather than to explicit color , a criterion that has always distinguished the research work on the roots of ceramics I made together with Mutina . In the project , light colors coexist - from white to terracotta to ranges of gray to black - to communicate to the visitor the sensation of the material .
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