Marila Zanella
Designer - Veneto, Italy
Marila Zanella’s creations cannot be classified as furnishing, sculptures, or installations; they are a manifestation of pure emotion. Inspired by the perfection of nature, each piece is minutely handcrafted through a process that begins with painstaking research and ends with minute sartorial detailing. The energy from an idea or an experience is transformed into designs exuding originality and poetry. Sometimes reinventing pieces from old armchairs and sofas, the approach always stays a step into the future.
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Marila’smoods,herexperiences,herfeelings,heraffections take shape inherstudio, transforming themselves into unique and exclusive works made entirely by hand. Each work is the result of skilled artisan hands that take care of every detail,inspired by the perfect shapes that exist in nature. All the materials usedare the result of careful stylistic and technical research aimed at innovation and experimentation. Sculptures,installations, furnishings:herworks refer to all this, but it is reductive to bring them back to a classification.
Everyone will be able to recognize themselves in the works and refer them to meanings that arise from individual life experiences. In the design of my works,Marilastartsfrom an idea, from something that struckherina particular way. In a natural way inhermindshealready visualizesthe work in its entirety and shehardly hastheneed to sketch the shapes on paper. In the realization ofherworks alongside traditional
materials such aswood and iron,Marilaalso use the frames of old armchairs or sofas, giving life to unique creations. The fabricssheuses: silk, satin, velvet, lampas, cotton mix and combine in often unusual shapes. The result of all this aremodern works that are nourished by memory, aimed at the future but which arise from a deep bond withthe artisan tradition of the past, new and unpublished works that are at the same time familiar to those whoobserve them.