2025
FLEXFORM
INTERIOR LANDSCAPES
It’s in an unusual and spectacular setting, the Angelicum, that Flexform presented Interior Landscapes, their latest collection dedicated to outdoor furniture. The context is exceptional: Giovanni Muzio’s architecture consists of a single elongated courtyard on different levels, bordering the side nave of the sixteenth-century Basilica di Santa Maria degli Angeli and enclosed on the other sides by the convent.
As it was not possible to intervene on the building due to historical-architectural constraints and the temporary nature of the exhibition, our intent focused on the attempt to create intimate and evocative environments and to enhance the collection by adding depth and meaning to the outdoor living scenarios and also highlighting the materials, fabrics and design lines of the refined furniture compositions.
Metis Lighting proposed a lighting scheme designed to remain coherent with the main guidelines of the setting while orchestrating illumination as a sophisticated instrument to enhance and complete atmospheres, adding layers of perception, and thus explore how light acts as a language, a unifying thread connecting diverse environments and weaving a common narrative.
The lighting concept is indeed articulated on different levels, carefully studying and positioning gentle accents of light in the greenery and areas of greater prominence, ensuring that the final result was an elegant and rhythmic succession of light, half-light, and semi-darkness, succeeding in the intent to contribute to the creation of new scenarios, adding the final touch to outdoor living areas and bringing life back to spaces that were not fully appreciated. The illumination is subtle at twilight and gradually becomes more dramatic and present as darkness increases.
The final resulting experience appeared to us as if our work had been to rediscover a space that had been forgotten in time, and the project, in its entirety, revalorised its identity.
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