Treasure trove
In a layered domestic landscape, a designer-artist inserts fluid creations, like signs of belonging
This house is a crossroad of affections, memories and inspirations. It is the family residence of Jacopo Foggini, a versatile artist-designer, on the hills of Turin inside a monastery built in the 1600s and 1700s. After the recent passing of his father – an outstanding entrepreneur, but also an archaeologist, explorer and bon vivant - Jacopo wanted to insert his own creative verve in the multilayered domestic landscape.
Antique paintings, clocks, period furnishings, silver, marble and bronze, Renaissance to Baroque, curiosities, mysterious mirrors. All these features are perfectly blended with the seating, lamps and flamboyant chandeliers created by Foggini since his debut in 1997, under the aegis of friend and mentor Romeo Gigli. «I have impulsively mixed this family legacy with my own floating, fluid world. Methacrylate, with its transparencies, colors and easy shaping, is the leitmotif of my career. The mixture of old and new works remarkably well, when the liquid, hard-to-grasp consistency of the things I make is combined with the solidity of consoles, antique textiles, portraits, surreal Baroque wooden profiles of trompe-l’oeil pieces my father liked to discover in antique stores».
Edra, the company with which Foggini has worked for 14 years, will present his A’Mare outdoor collection at the upcoming Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, a series featuring exceptional craftsmanship. «In spite of the current demonization of plastic, I still see it as the synthesis of all the life forms on earth. An all-encompassing genetic code conserved by petroleum, a substance that has changed our lives across the decades, opening the way to the future. In my production for Edra I have chosen a difficult path, defying the stereotypes that see plastic as part of an industrial world and a global, ephemeral consumption of design».