Fabio Ferrillo Belli, architect, designer and founder of the Milan-based FERRILLOBELLI studio, and Friul Mosaic, an artisan company and workshop of excellence in mosaic art, have joined forces in an extraordinary collaboration that has given rise to Éclats, a new collection made up of current content, in an iconographic, technical and chromatic language that is absolutely contemporary, modern and experimental, where each work is different from the next.
“I chose a French name for a contemporary, flexible and eco-sustainable Italian collection,” designer Fabio Ferrillo Belli tells us, – “éclats is a name with two meanings: on the one hand splinter, the fragment i of glass that makes up the image, and on the other hand flash, the brilliance of the texture that makes up the mosaic“.
Éclats is developed according to three themes, nine subjects, twenty-seven declinations and infinite possibilities, each conceived in two different declinations and intended for the contract, wellness and residential worlds. The first is two-dimensional, more traditional, linked to the support, and the second is more contemporary, innovative three-dimensional in which certain details of the subject come to life by detaching themselves from the wall.
The themes that the collation proposes are FLYING CREATURES, TROPICAL JUNGLE and TRIBUTE IN MILAN. The former recalls and represents the lightness, fragility and incredible complexity of wings. “Perfect structures, these,” says the designer, “yet geometrically almost random, unrepeatable, made up of tiny diversities, which speak the same language as Friul Mosaic and the hands of the craftsmen who make them”. Tropical Jungle, on the other hand, stages the plant world that refers to symbolic contents, more complex and evocative than the intricate structure of the leaves themselves, that is, the deepest essence of nature, elusive. The third theme is entitled Tribute to Milan and is a tribute to the city of Milan and in particular to some of its most representative architecture.
“One of the objectives that we have set ourselves as a company,” explains Barbara Bertoia, Co-owner of Friul Mosaic, “is to overcome the concept of mosaic as something uniquely linked to the classical and traditional world, by launching and accepting ever innovative proposals, such as that of architect Fabio Ferrillo Belli. This is combined with two other fundamental objectives in which we have always continued to invest, attention to the environment and the ethicality of our creations and our production process. Eco-sustainability linked to creating new works by giving new life to materials that can no longer be used for their original purposes, eco-sustainability linked, in the age of disposability, to the durability and longevity of the mosaic work compared to other techniques and materials, which requires knowledge, ethics and profound sensitivity in designing and creating something that will remain in time.”
