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Caldera / LITHICA

Table light, 2025

Client: Lapilli

Team:

  • Francesco Vedani

  • Matteo Mina

  • Diego Spartà​

MILANO DESIGN WEEK 2025

SUPERSTUDIO PIÙ

Via Tortona 27 – Milano
7-12 april, 11:00 - 21:00

13 april, 11:00 - 18:00
6 april, 15:00 - 20:00  (VIP & Press Preview)

 “Caldera”  evokes  the  volcanic  cavity  left  by  an  eruption,  transforming  its  shape  into  a  lamp  of  great  visual  strength.  The  inclined  surfaces  and  clear  volumes  create  plays  of  light  and  shadow  that  amplify  the  tension  between  full  and  empty.  The  dense  and  dark  lava  stone  contrasts  with  the  brilliance  of  steel,  in  a  synthesis  between  nature  and  industry.  The  result  is  an  object  with  a  sober  but  eloquent  language,  capable  of  transforming  light  into  experience,  restoring  to  design  the  archaic  power  of  material  storytelling.

LITHICA is a collection born from the encounter between the geological memory of the Earth and the material culture ofcontemporary man. Lava stone and steel confront each other in a dialogue between opposing forces: on one side the naturalheat that forges the rock, on the other the artificial heat of the industrial furnace that shapes the metal. The identity of the projectlies in this tension: an aesthetic that is not decoration, but an expression of matter and function.Each piece of the collection is based on the principles of Max Bill's Gute Forme: pure, functional forms, in which beauty and utilitycoincide. At the same time, it recognizes itself in the Super Normal philosophy of Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa, whichinvites us to design discrete, profound, necessary objects. It is not the formal gesture that imposes itself, but the quality ofpresence, the ability to tell stories through matter.LITHICA is a tribute to myth and modernity. It evokes volcanoes and divinities, magma and landscapes, but it also speaksof industrial revolution, conscious production, design as an ethical gesture. It is a sober but monumental collection, whichrejects pomp to enhance the authentic strength of materials. Each element is a small domestic architecture, a point ofbalance between the Earth and technique, between an archaic past and a possible future. LITHICA is a landscape to inhabit, amaterial story to share.

© 2025 by Filippo Mambretti Design Studio

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