Draga & Aurel Explore Artistic Experimentation of the 70s

For Milan Design Week 2023Como, Italy based mostly Draga & Aurel are again for the second time with a brand new mission for Nilufar, an artwork and design gallery in Milan. House couture is a set of furnishings that offers op artwork and area emotions with vibrant colours and reflective surfaces. “On this age of darkness, we should be lighthearted, carefree and ‘glowing’. With our new mission for Nilufar, we wish to convey these optimistic, radiant vibes,” say Draga & Aurel.

The pair regarded to the Seventies for inspiration, when design and creative experimentation occurred, a “interval of breakup, fusion and a variety of creativity”. They immersed themselves within the optical illusions of the Op Artwork interval, the blown-up works of Jeff Koons and different inflatable objects, such because the Blow Inflatable Armchair by Jonathan De Pas, Donato D’Urbino and Paolo Lomazzi. The ensuing assortment is enjoyable and playful, with the power to dwell in each decade.

The SABOT armchair appears straight out of the area age and is definitely at residence within the Jetson’s condominium with its shiny floor coated in laminate and a shiny varnish. The BON BON appliques are like glowing, colourful candies that initially began out as tables, however become lights on the partitions. And eventually, the resin column CLAIRE LAMP is a nod to Victor Vasarely’s Op Artwork of the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies with its ribbed exterior, vibrant colours and distorted geometry. The background of the set up options customized Wall&Deco wallpaper that Draga & Aurel designed with colourful brushstrokes particularly for the present.

House Couture was on show from 18 to 23 April 2023 at Nilufar 25, By way of della Spiga 32 in Milan.

Gallery pictures by Riccardo Gasperoni.