Friday, 14 September 2007 | Levent OZLER
PORTALI: Designed by Andrea Branzi
 PORTALI is a collection of 18 pieces of white pottery, intended as if they were small equal surroundings; yet, in each of these portals a different vase, or tree trunk is arranged.
Therefore, it is conceived as a series of micro-spaces, which create an architectural blossoming landscape; more than a collection of vases, PORTALI looks like an environmental project, the persistence of a simple thought that is renewed in time and space, like metrics or a stave.
As it has often occurred to me in these years, the actual center of my interests has been in flowers, due to their mysterious presence, rich in colors and fragrance inside the space of mankind, just like Japanese ikebana around which architecture develops, or tokonoma, which enclose both literature and the most private symbols in small niches.
I think that one of the tasks of design is being able to enrich the world not just with useless ornaments, but with self-sufficient spaces, micro-places devoted to what may seem unnecessary but absolutely necessary to give a sense to everything, such as the space for flowers and for the sacred objects of the lay civilizations.
Andrea Branzi
PORTALI
designed by Andrea Branzi
The Tingo Design Gallery- Via Volta, 18
Milan
October 19th - November 17th
Opening hours - Tuesday/Saturday 3.30 to 7.30 p.m.
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