Matilda by Fabio Rotella

To think of an object created with the simple magic of glass-blowing, a thousand-year old muranese art technique, without further work, this is the real starting point for the abat-jour “Matilda” idealized by Fabio Rotella,  mounted on a simple chrome steel saucer finishing and defining the object, the energy-saving light bulb of the new generation confers modernity. An object that can exalt the real cultural qualities of the VENINI signature, giving profound sensations of memory and simplicity but that, at the same time, holds the object of satisfying a market still in existence.

An Abat-Jour, classic typology that reawakens memories and suppressed emotions, reassuring and intimate, the child of time in which furnishings had a value that went beyond a sense of possessions becoming a testimonial of one’s life. Matilda will accompany us in our most personal moments, in reading, in thinking, in meditation, in relaxation and dozing between the infrared colors filtered by the magic of the Murano glass.

Rotella provokes a reflection: “In a historical moment rich with contradictions and disorder returns the need to center our attentions around the intrinsic identity of man and his being, born here is the desire of finding again value and points of reference that can again give security and trust. The reported market of design in the last few years has given us a proliferation of useless products, pervaded by a myriad of variations in the theme of form and use “invading the world”.