Glass and paper stay being two of probably the most historical artifical supplies, eons of trial, error, and historical past of their wake. Two such ubiquitous substances that we may presumably take them with no consideration in our fashionable lives, so faraway from the locations the place our objects are made. POETICA by WonderGlass with new works from Ronan Bouroullec and Vincent Van Duysen provide a recent tackle the storied supplies. Throughout Salone del Cellular 2025, POETICA, offered in collaboration with ethereal wallpapers from Calico Wallpaper, and with particular contribution by Officine Saffi Lab, wove glass and paper right into a shared language of reminiscence and creativeness.
Rooted within the timeless custom of storytelling and artistry, POETICA invitations guests to discover the transformation of supplies into vessels of emotion and narrative. Right here, glass and paper transcend their on a regular basis identities, turning into conduits between the seen and the unseen, the actual and the remembered.
On the coronary heart of POETICA lies a dialogue between type and feeling. The set up blurs the boundary between the tangible and the summary, revealing delicate dimensions as every bit interacts with its setting. Each object is a narrative in movement – originating within the designer’s imaginative and prescient, formed by the fingers of expert artisans, and dropped at life by way of the gaze of the viewer. The result’s a poetic continuum – the place design, craft, and notion converge to inform a story that’s ever-shifting and deeply private.
A number of magnitudes of area add dimension, focusing first on the glass items from the Optô assortment by Vincent Van Duysen, lit beneath on a beneficiant platform to catch the items of their greatest gentle. The slight blue undertones of thick fuxed glass add a luxurious high quality to the items, hefty of their distortion of element. Clear, blown-glass vases and glasses prolong from the tops of the tables in some locations, giving an oddly pure impact to a fairly industrial type. These perforated items sit in an expanse of blue carpet, a part of the optical phantasm of the partitions of the exhibition, which prolong upward in a large, sluggish gradient because of Calico Wallpaper. Because the navy of the carpet flows into the blue of the partitions, a lovely peach emerges, solely to be topped by heat lighting that cascades down the face of the wallpaper, including intriguing shadow and softness to the room. Lastly, the stately inside of the Istituto dei Ciechi provides a quiet degree of luxurious, simply peeking out and making itself identified by way of the portholes and hovering arches of the encircling partitions.
On the additional finish of the corridor, we cross the perforated glass sculptures and immersive partitions to come back upon a extra pure interpretation of glass by Ronan Bouroullec. The natural varieties interwoven with geometric regularity in a backlit field, illuminate the textural qualities of the layers of glass. Rounded varieties, every with distinct colour and form assortments, include cavities for a singular, candy flower. Surrounding the varieties are panels of glass, hung in area to type layers of transparency, hue indelibly on the whim of no matter lies behind.
We see these layers fantastically rendered, the deep ochre of the yellow glass interacting elegantly with the rounded multitudes of inexperienced glass behind. All components are beholden to at least one one other of their transparency, an enthralling dialogue on how we’re all coloured by our personal notion – and maybe an answer on easy methods to mitigate these pure foibles in our personal lives.
To study extra concerning the work of Vincent Van Duysen, Ronan Bouroullec, and Calico Wallpaper within the POETICA exhibition by WonderGlass, please go to wonderglass.com.
Images by Antonio Managò.
