DECÀLOGO
Our design is an act of research that besides giving form to thought and developing iden-
tity generates material consistence: we design and produce objects – i.e. we invent and
build – without imagining these items as formal variations of a specific type, but as chan-
nels of sense and meaning, presences that are necessary to convey a concept or an idea.
Our objects develop intangible imaginaries and tangible uses. They are presences in
tune with each other and with the spaces that host them: never conceived as isolated
pieces, they are seen instead as parts of a whole, because every single article stands out
for a remarkable ability to fit into its environment, to be inserted in the context, without
failing to express its own precise, forceful personality.
The furnishing objects of Visionnaire – and the settings that arise from their combi-
nation – set out to act as stimuli to activate a dialogue, important nodes of a theoretical
network of reciprocal relations that bring character to all the spaces of life, devices ready
to produce a “charge” – beyond the aesthetic level – that enables them to establish a rela-
tionship of empathy with their users.
Definitely exclusive – in the sense of being precious – the material results of our ef-
forts also take on the role of inclusive subjects, capable of opening to offer a wide range
of performances: beyond their innate “practical functioning,” the objects that surround
us – above all in the spatial domain of intimacy in the home, but also elsewhere – are now
endowed with an “emotional function” that is completed by an “affective function.” A large
part of our attribution of value and the title of “home” to a place depends on the degree
of attunement we are able to achieve with these inanimate presences, the emotion and
affection derived from their use.
WE BELIEVE IN EMPATHY
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