British designer Nigel Coates is presenting his new limited edition furniture and lighting pieces in Milan this week. Designer's strong connections with the Italian design world will translate into this new show. As part of Fuori Salone 2010 the new pieces will be showcased in a one-person exhibition, Baroccabilly, at the Galleria Camera16.
In diverse ways all ten objects blend the airy sense of movement of the baroque with the untamed qualities of music culture. Behind all of them lies the spirit of the Baroccabilly, an existential rebel outsider who finds himself lost in Baudelaire’s ‘luxe-calme-volupté’, and a type that looks for a shamanistic passion in the objects that surround him.
Forms, textures, and colours switch roles to shape an installation that confirms Coates' storytelling design vocabulary. The Baroccabilly collection is made from luxury materials, is highly crafted, and is realised in collaboration with the historic Tuscan furniture company Poltronova in twelve editions.
