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Riflessi: 2016 collections in the sign of "Artidesign"
published on: 25 agosto 2016

The identity of Riflessi has experienced in recent years a rapid
evolution: from the specialization in the production of mirrors to
the production of a wide range of home accessories, tables and
multifunction consoles, cupboards, chairs, in the sign of elegance
and functionality. The vocation for the design remains unchanged
and rooted in memory, in the artistic and handcrafted know-how
in a perfect blend of aesthetics and practicality and in addition to
the great attention to sustainability. The results are furnishings
with a rigorous style, which combine beauty and functionality,
contamination of unusual materials and of different styles. This
also allows a customized production, measured according to the
needs of the clients, which generates objects identical but at the
same time different, unique and original even if product of the
industry.”Artidesign”, the craftsmanship-design combination,
forms the heart of the collections 2016: a renewed face for products
already in the collection, thanks to new and evocative materials and
finishes, along with unpublished projects, created in collaboration
with designers. A new version for the Shanghai table, the real best
seller of the company, proposed with a methacrylate base and extra-
clear transparent top and the Living table, with smoked glass
top and base in graphite. Among the novelties, however, Medea and Velaquadra designed by Egidio Panzera, are characterized by a formal essentiality
evokingneo-retro bourgeois memories and spaces,
amongdeco citations, vintage and contemporaneity.A mix of materials
in a continuous game of echoes and references, in an ever new
dialogue between products and spaces that suit the different personalities
of the clients. Medea, in particular, recalls the old sideboard
in glass, in which the regular forms of the frames in solid wood incorporate
a special processing: a profile in oak, with an irregular
section of 6 sides, circumscribes volumes of different sizes and
joins in every corner with 45° cuts, creating a facet diamond cut that
comes from the hands of skilled craftsmen. Velaquadra, instead is
composed by a base, a back, a top and of rectangular and transparent
“sails”, like expansions defining the remaining sides of the volumes.
The name is taken from an old type of sail boats with a rectangular
shape and a truly unique design characteristic, around which a
modular system of showcases has been created,formally reminiscent
of glass reliquaries with transparent volumes. The “sails” pirouette
around an innovative axis of rotation, a profile-hinge, which touching lightly the glass doors, will become the pivot around which
to rotate 180°. The sides vanish and are replaced by glass doors,
their corners are dematerialized and become accessible from all sides,
in a game of discrete and elegant “sails” that, by opening, capsize
without taking up space. Egidio Panzera also proposes new chairs,
an area of ongoing research by the company, with the Glide Chair,
inspired by the homonymous table, with the particulartwist of the
legs and the emphasis of the wooden structure.Tailoring and wood
texture characterize the chairs Sofia by the designers Stefano Sandonà
and Sabrina Bettini. The silhouette with gentle and sumptuous
lines reveals thecraftsmanship of the stitching details, the ergonomics
of the backrest, the comfort achieved through the use of elastic
belt on the seat and backrest.
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