Also thanks to the skilful play of light that guides visitors through the halls and the gallery, where the sofas, armchairs, poufs, lamps and tables of the Edra brand are exhibited, contributing to a successful dialogue between history and contemporaneity. Added to this is the discovery of the new outdoor line created for Edra by Jacopo Foggini, the Turin-born artist-designer (in love with Milan) who has always worked with methacrylate, an industrial material generally used in automotive design.

Read also the interview with Jacopo Foggini in the Edra showroom at Palazzo Durini

The new Foggini collection which, with a play on words that tastes of Naples, summer, sea and passion, is called A’mare is made up of tables, chairs, armchairs, a bench and sun loungers in pure methacrylate. Transparent like glass or water, an element from which they also steal a wonderful shade of turquoise, very light but at the same time very solid.

A material that Foggini knows well, having started working it in the nineties (its first installation dates back to 1997, for the Romeo Gigli space) when he invented a machine capable of heating it up to transform it into filaments that can be modeled with the hands. Since then Foggini has never stopped, making himself known for his “creations of light”, always poised between art and design, mixing the transparency of methacrylate with the solidity of wood or metal, or the brilliance of mother-of-pearl details or facts of mirrors, the result of a curious mind, eclectic and inclined to experimentation.

And with a style a little out of time, perhaps because, by his own admission, Jacopo Foggini has never had a great passion for contemporary design. So today his creations are perfectly at home in a museum, a hotel, in a private home or, as for Amare, even outdoors, on the terrace or by the pool.