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Fumarole / LITHICA

Wall hanger, 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)

”Fumarole”  is  inspired  by  volcanic  vents  from  which  incandescent  gases  and  vapors  emerge.  
The  hanger  emerges  from  the  wall  with  an  essential  and  functional  geometry,  where  the  lava  stone,  shaped  by  the  natural  pressure  of  the  subsoil,  meets  the  industrially  processed  steel.  This  tension  between  geological  origin  and  artificial  transformation  is  the  basis  of  the  collection's  identity.
“Fumarole”  is  a  discreet  but  highly  evocative  object  that  restores  an  everyday  gesture  to  its  primordial  power,  transforming  the  wall  into  a  sculptural  micro-landscape.

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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