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Aetneum / LITHICA

Coffe table, 2025

Client: Lapilli

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Team:

  • Francesco Vedani

  • Matteo Mina

  • Diego Spartà​

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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)

“Aetneum”  recalls  Etna,  emblem  of  energy  and  transformation.  The  coffee  table  is  composed  of  a  lava  stone  base  and  a  steel  structure,  creating  a  dialogue  between  dense  matter  and  light  form.  The  project  finds  its  strength  in  proportion  and  silent  presence:  it  is  an  object  that  does  not  flaunt,  but  defines.  A  volcanic  block  translated  into  the  domestic  landscape,  where  nature  and  industry  meet.

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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