2022 Bring new life to the interior with sculptural interiors from Italy

Create an inspiring atmosphere at home with Italian 1970s classics and use the time indoors to change your surroundings and find renewed inspiration.

The iconic Italian Spaghetti chair that still receives international recognition

Italian Giandomenico Belotti is one of Italy’s most renowned designers of all time. In 1979 he designed the first chair for the furniture maker Alias, which has since become one of the most iconic chairs internationally with a permanent exhibition at MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) in New York. The chair is simply executed and consists of a chrome frame with transparent strings made of PVC, which is flexible and makes it comfortable to sit on.

Called the Spaghetti chair, it has a timeless and simple design — the reason for its enduring popularity over the years. Today the iconic chair is available in several variants, and you can find it as both a lounge chair and a dining chair.

Alias Spaghetti lounge chair, Giandomenico Belotti

Steel and plastic are typical materials Alias uses in their designs. Materials that equal quality and give a timeless expression, which keeps the chair attractive today. Furnish with the Spaghetti chair and use it to create contrast with the sofa’s soft expression through its raw design. Without compromising on seating comfort, you get both a chair and a sculpture in one design.

Alias vintage Spaghetti dining chair, Giandomenico Belotti

Artistic ceramics that fit perfectly in a Nordic home

Tommaso Barbi is an Italian designer who created voluminous coffee tables, lamps, picture frames and beautiful bowls throughout the 1970s. All handmade in ceramics. Picture wood-clad walls, bamboo furniture and large indoor palms filling the living room. A heavy interior with furniture that often referenced garden vibes and nature outside the home’s walls. That was the style back then and very indicative of Tommaso Barbi’s designs. His lamps are especially inspired by nature, where snakes, palms and shells are reflected.Adapted to the 70s’ popular heavy colors, Tommaso Barbi worked mainly with browns and other neutral shades in his designs. Colors that in recent years have found their way back into many homes, especially here in Denmark. Returning to the deep and warm tones like burnt orange and reddish-brown makes Barbi’s designs feel modern again. His warm color choices suit many Nordic homes today, while also complementing the minimalist Scandinavian style.

He is known for creating sculptural furniture in organic and soft shapes, like this lamp base.

Tommaso Barbi, vintage ceramic lamp base

The soft color choices of brown shades and warm brass details feel inviting and cozy in a Scandinavian interior. Create contrast against white-painted walls and cool tones in the home with Barbi’s unique ceramic and brass lamp base. The delicate colors and muted glazes on his ceramic works are why his designs effortlessly fit into the modern home style today.

Tommaso Barbi is interested in creating organic forms inspired by nature. This is seen in his leaf-shaped lamps in polished brass and table lamps resembling shells, like this lamp base decorated with shells

Tommaso Barbi, vintage ceramic lamp base

Tommaso Barbi has a consistent style where ceramics and brass are the most used materials in his designs. Often separately, as a single bowl or a fully cast brass lamp, or together, where brass forms the details on his ceramics, allowing them to complement each other. He is especially good at working with hard materials without making them look raw, instead shaping them into soft forms, like this bowl.

His technique often features a simple design with twists that create the recognizable organic style. The glaze is monochrome with small variations that make it lively to look at and show the craftsmanship behind it. Despite its age, this bowl will still look great in today’s interiors, either for storing jewelry or as the family fruit bowl.

Tommaso Barbi, vintage ceramic bowl

Outstanding Murano vases for decorating with

Toso is the surname of one of Italy’s most renowned glassmakers across generations and the company still exists today. Originally it was founded by six brothers, and they became particularly noted for Millefiori, where many small glass pieces are combined into, for example, a vase. A glass style with many colors and small details that, as the name suggests, resembles a thousand flowers. Millefiori consists of many very small glass pieces joined together to form a mosaic pattern. The colors are often kept in strong shades like blue, orange, green and red.

The creation of Millefiori involves several glass rods that are melted together to form a flower pattern. The rods are then cut into smaller pieces. The glassblower blows the form of the glass to be made, such as a vase or a tumbler, after which the outside is dipped all the way around into the small glass pieces. In this way different glasses fuse together without the pattern disappearing. That is what is called Millefiori.

Vintage Murano Millefiori lamp base, handmade in Italy.

The family has over time kept their designs in strong colors, like these two vases. Two vases that have been part of the family’s private collection. The glassworks had its last in-house production on the island in 1968–1970 and this vase comes from that final production. Since then the vase has been part of the Fratelli Toso family’s private collection and still has its original sticker. An absolute collector’s item in perfect condition.

Vintage Fratelli Toso Murano swirl vase, handmade in Italy.

Vintage Fratelli Toso Murano swirl vase, handmade in Italy.

Let the vases catch attention by placing them on a windowsill where sunlight can shine through so the pattern projects onto the sill. The vases also work well next to the bathroom sink or with a small roadside bouquet on the dining table.

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