Nostalgia Futuro, a project born from the collaboration between architect Luca Remigio, founder of Remigio Architects, and illustrator Jacopo Ascari, founder of Atelier Ascari, will be presented during Milan Design Week, from 15 to 21 April 2024.
It is a narrative flow that comes to life amidst illustrated installations and design furniture in an immersive, olfactory and sound path.
Nostalgia Futuro presents an urbanistic reality, that of Milan, a city of impossible projects and visions by some of the greatest masters, iconic projects of great value that have not been completed, opening up future and futuristic scenarios.
An illustrated story featuring a child following a carriage and entering a city suspended between sadness and hope and a female figure, characterised by the unmistakable style of the 1950s.
With Nostalgia Futuro, architecture acts as an antidote to anxieties, as a euphoric interpretation of the future.
Thus Remigio Architects covers the premises of its own studio in Via Plinio and Via Righi to create a monolith over 10 metres high, on which Jacopo Ascari’s illustration is majestically rendered.
The all over technique typical of the fashion industry is applied by Jacopo Ascari to the field of exhibition design by Remigio Architects and accompanies the visitor to the discovery of an installation made with sustainable materials, a concept always present in every project of the studio.
Nostalgia Futuro is developed in the garden and in the interiors of the premises, where the Soixante-deux (62 in French) collection is stored with three furnishing elements: a seat, a bookcase and a console table. The name originates from the special design and characteristics of the collection, with an innovative modular structure based on the number 62, which also recurs in the accessories and friezes.
The seating, named Tête-à-tête, includes a double armchair and a pouf.
The first is a two-seater seat that wraps itself in a soft embrace of design for two, inviting an intimate and comfortable tête-à-tête.
The pouf, with its elliptical shape, completes the ensemble by echoing the materials and colours of the seat.
The Librairie bookcase is distinguished by its essential lines in antique lilac-coloured aluminium that blend with delicate decorations in bent iron, the work of a skilled craftsman blacksmith.
Meuble is a console table of timeless elegance, which appears as a refined ‘X’ interweaving between a dark lilac painted aluminium frame and a dark solid wood board.
The three pieces of furniture, placed in separate areas, are presented inside white boxes that place each element in its own domestic environment, composing a complete living reality, made visible thanks to Jacopo Ascari’s drawings depicted on one or more backdrops, in which female figures act as a common thread with the outdoor installations.
For further information visit Remigio Architects and Jacopo Ascari‘s website.
