The new FILICUDI COLLECTION, Homage Ugo La Pietra the island of Sicily, will be previewed at Salone del Mobile in Milan 2014 April 8-13.
The 2014 for Barel, historical Piedmontese forged iron company, Begins with a prestigious meeting: collaboration with the master of design Ugo La Pietra. By the expert hands of Barel craftsmen and smiths from the creative mind of the master is born FILICUDI, a collection for the night environment based on the search for new languages and new ways of living in forged iron: an ancient material, strong but flexible, real strength of the company.
The collection, which is composed of a bed with their bedside tables, a desk, a console with wall mirror e a mirror from the ground, Is all strictly made Hand-forged iron workshops Barel. The Company's local roots are called not only in the elements of the story wood and stone, but above all in the inserts in Ceramics in Mondovi, from the characteristic cobalt blue, characterizing the headboard and bedside tables.
The combination of La Pietra-Barel is part of the deeper and broader path of research and innovation that Barel has undertaken in recent years. The collection of Ugo La Pietra is the first of a series of projects which will see the involvement of designers and artists with whom Barel initiated collaborations that mark a turning point for a company that still manufactures handcrafted all its productions.
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