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Cassina 2025

Istituto Marangoni

Design: Maria Baez

PROJECT BRIEF - 

This project focuses on creating a furniture piece for Cassina that merges the brand’s legacy of Italian modernism and craftsmanship with a vivid, emotionally resonant design language. It balances sculptural expression with refined elegance, aiming to evoke a sense of presence through story and design.

RESEARCH & CONCEPT - 

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This project for Cassina explores the quiet poetry of distant windows—those glowing rectangles glimpsed from the street that evoke warmth, intimacy, and a sense of life unfolding beyond our reach. Inspired by this emotional tension between distance and closeness, the research investigates how objects can frame, filter, and diffuse light to capture a similar sense of curiosity and nostalgia. Drawing from architectural layering, transparency, and the rituals of domestic life, the design proposes a series of complementary pieces—such as a taboret or a sculptural doorstop—that act as subtle thresholds within the home. Crafted from tactile materials like terracotta and ceramics, these objects invite reflection, framing everyday moments like windows into lived experience.

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