Volumes of Stillness
Nilufar
Milan, IT
2026
This body of work explores a series of objects conceived as part of a continuous interior landscape. Rounded volumes, low silhouettes, and saturated surfaces define an environment that feels both familiar and slightly displaced.
Shaped into soft, almost inflated forms, it carries an unexpected sense of weight and density while maintaining a visual lightness. Its surface absorbs and reflects light in a way that enhances the spatial atmosphere, creating a subtle tension between mass and softness.
The work continues an ongoing investigation into abstraction through form and material. Rather than focusing on contrast, it explores the coexistence of opposing qualities: solid and hollow, rigid and supple, opaque and luminous. These conditions are not stated but experienced, unfolding gradually as one moves through the space.
Light plays a central role, not as illumination but as a material presence. It emerges from within forms or traces their edges, reinforcing the ambiguity of their structure and scale. Objects appear stable yet fluid, heavy yet almost transient.
The collection is composed of seating and lighting elements that operate both individually and as part of a larger spatial composition. Each piece is defined by its relationship to the surrounding environment, inviting proximity, movement, and a shifting perception of form.
Shaped into soft, almost inflated forms, it carries an unexpected sense of weight and density while maintaining a visual lightness. Its surface absorbs and reflects light in a way that enhances the spatial atmosphere, creating a subtle tension between mass and softness.
The work continues an ongoing investigation into abstraction through form and material. Rather than focusing on contrast, it explores the coexistence of opposing qualities: solid and hollow, rigid and supple, opaque and luminous. These conditions are not stated but experienced, unfolding gradually as one moves through the space.
Light plays a central role, not as illumination but as a material presence. It emerges from within forms or traces their edges, reinforcing the ambiguity of their structure and scale. Objects appear stable yet fluid, heavy yet almost transient.
The collection is composed of seating and lighting elements that operate both individually and as part of a larger spatial composition. Each piece is defined by its relationship to the surrounding environment, inviting proximity, movement, and a shifting perception of form.
