12.09.24
Sighted
Interni Venosta’s Surprise Debut in a Milanese Plaster Workshop Was One of the Best Design Moments of 2024. The Collection Keeps Getting Better.
Interni Venosta wowed us when their debut collection launched earlier this year in a plaster workshop in Milan — it was one of our favorite collections from 2024 — and the collection’s latest additions continue to impress. An independent project from Milan darlings Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran, who founded their architectural and design studio Dimorestudio over twenty years ago, Interni Venosta exudes an Italian — specifically Milanese — refinement that’s at once avant-garde and classic. Striking in its elegant proportions, this is furniture that stands out in an interior but also feels as if it were always at home there. The brand’s name is meant to evoke the approach of Italian designer Carla Venosta, who produced a range of visionary work from the ’70s through the ’90s via her studio in Milan. And these pieces are marked by a deceptive simplicity that’s richly referential, calling to mind not only Venosta but the pared back sculpture and furniture of Donald Judd and works by Walter de Maria. Other echoes include the iconic pieces of Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld and exemplars of Bauhaus design like Marcel Breuer.
Designed in Milan by Salci and Moran and manufactured in Arezzo, Tuscany, by Fabbri Services, the seven original works included an impeccable, rectangular wood and stainless steel dining table, a chair with a rattan and tubular steel base and a lacquered wood back (that tucks so perfectly into the table), a room divider made of mirror and lacquered wood, a sleek bed, a steel and parchment paper table lamp, a low table of glass and steel, and a polished steel pendant lamp. Joining these stunners is a suite of new pieces: a draped sofa that can function alone as a kind of loveseat or whose modules can be extended together, a leather armchair with an origami-like structure, a metallic, cylindrical table lamp whose perforated discs diffuse light, a long coffee table with the geometry of a sculptural puzzle, an upholstered leather chair on three legs, and a massive bookcase that’s as gorgeous as it is practical (with its adjustable shelves). It’s a collection that’s rooted in history — Modernist rigor meets ’70s ease and glamour — even as it transcends time.