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: The idea inspiring this project was to bring green into the house in an unusual way : I drawn a Bookshelf with a light structure made in iron rod, where climbing plants can grow between books, determining a soft division in openspaces. I chose the hexagonal form for the wooden modules, a form inspired by the beehive, to strenghten the “organic” feature of the project.
: My focus as designer is to create objects that live in the space where they are positioned, through the changes of light during the day, and by means of the interaction of who use them. Dharma has a minimal wireframe rod structure and hanged wood hexagonal modules, that create a succession of empty and full spaces. Letting grow a climbing plant over the rod structure, you can change the visual composition and you can also establish the degree of transparency of your room-divider.
: I’m searching for someone interested in a production.
: It took me about one month.The difficult in developing this project was to define the base module. I was searching for a shape recalling nature, that can lend an organic feature tho my bookshelf. After several attempts, I defined a kind of three-dimensional hexagonal modules, inspired by the beehives.
: As Architect I know that many new houses have big wonderful open spaces, that often are unfortunately difficult to furnish. I was searching to draw a piece of furniture that can be used as a room divider, to ensure a good quality of use of open spaces, preserving, at the same time, their brightness and largeness. Moreover, nowadays there is always a larger desire to have plants in the house, making them an integral part of our interior design. When I drawn Dharma I tried to combine these two requirements .
: I’d like to found a company that can produce Dharma, remaining linked to my product with royalties.
: Often, as interior designer, I use room-divider to improve the conditions of use of open spaces .So I decided to draw by myself a bookshelf that can be use as a light partition preserving the largeness and the quality of light of the room, and that can be also used to integrate plants in the home furnishings.
: Someone who loves bright and colorful space, that is searching for pieces of versatile furniture and that loves the idea of inserting plants in an unusual way in the interiors.
: I used a very unusual shape for the wooden blocks of the bookshelf: I developed an hexagonal three dimensional module that recall the cell of a beehive. I made also accessories to ensure easy use of hexagonal modules.
: The shape of the wooden models reminded me the symbol of the “Dharma Project” in LOST, a Tv series I loved. Often this symbol was hidden by the leaves in the jungle, and this also recall the idea of my project, where climbing plants can grow between modules.
: I made a lot of work with physical models, to define the three dimensional shape of the modules and the succession of empty and full spaces.
: I think it’s the “organic” feature of Dharma : the reference to the Nature with its module shape, and the possibility to integrate climbing plants in its structure.
: I worked with a blacksmith , Marco Breda, that helped me to develop the structure and particularly the three dimensional modules in iron rod.
: The most difficult part was to develop the three dimensional hexagonal module, in a way that it can be used in an easy way , in spite of its unusual shape.
: I presented Dharma at Salone Satellite 2015 during Milano Design Week ; here I was invited by a member of the organization of the competition to submit my project: he saw in Dharma the suitable qualities to win a prize.
