Vincenzo De Cotiis EN PLEIN AIR

This in-house publication features 20 furniture-sculptures handmade by the Italian artist and designer Vincenzo De Cotiis. The collection of seating, lighting, tables, cabinets and bookshelves is an aesthetical ‘tour de force’ combining a plethora of materials including semiprecious stones, Murano glass, recycled resin and cast brass.

Harking back to the Impressionist’s celebration of painting En Plein Air, ‘outdoors’, De Cotiis states this publication is a ‘quintessence of everything that the movements of the early 20th century had established. The chromaticism of the materials draw from Pointillism; Pre-Cubist geometries and organic expressionist schemes alternate in perpetual rhythm, de-structuring the classical canons, forging them into the contemporary world. A new iconographic and morphological alphabet composed of signs that take hold of the past just as they do the future'.