Preview Milan: Expo Lightness/ Alain Gilles for Casamania

‘Lightness’ is a compound of products, prototypes and limited editions about light and lightness that also displays daily life, reflections on functions and functionality, physical weight and philosophical lightness, visual or tactile perception, environmental impact and design ethics.  This exhibition emphasizes immateriality above the product and stresses that itʼs the meaning of an object that legitimizes its success and that creates a dialogue with the final consumer.  TLblog presents three out of the twenty-one designers on display.

Alain Gilles exhibits (among others) ‘Container’ for Casamania and explains his vision on design and the theme of the exposition:

Being a designer. “To make people dream”. To design functional objects that transport people to another place, objects that can in some way come to life by themselves, because they have a personality that changes according to the angle of view or communicate movement through the tension that is created within the object itself.
Designing. To create objects with which the end-user can interact, and thus participate in the design process, for example by playing with the arrangement of the products they can become real “tools” that can come to life. And to make sure that these objects are simple, easy to comprehend. As designers, we donʼt that often have the chance to invent new functions… Itʼs more
about transforming and improving.
Lightness. Container for Casamania (IT – www.casamania.it), is the result of a deconstruction and reconstruction idea, like a sideboard or chest of drawers whose every function can be divided up. You can then play with each block, create new structures, while encouraging interaction and to a certain extent the active participation of the user.