Rococo
The third textile collection signed by Peter Marino
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Rubelli presents Rococo, Peter Marino's third capsule collection. Like the previous collections – Peter Marino for Venetian Heritage and Second Firing – this capsule collection also draws inspiration from art. This time, the New York architect and designer is inspired by two watercolour drawings by Tiepolo. His attentive and sensitive eye captures details and nuances: he himself traces and circumscribes the sections of the drawings that strike him the most and "entrusts" them to the Rubelli style office to derive new interpretations. From the elaboration of those drawing fragments, first enlarged and then broken down and recomposed, new abstract forms are born, capable of conveying a sense of lively movement. "Light" signs that seem to float in the air, and no longer traceable to their source: in short, drawing from the figurative past to arrive at the modernity of the abstract. Thus, the figure of Psyche flying to Olympus – sketched in Tiepolo's drawing – becomes abstract in the fabric, like in a dream. A gold or silver thread runs through the tuft of a cherub, Psyche's arm, and her breast. Similarly, only some graphic elements of the centaur drawing are taken and elaborated into the new textile creations. Curved and oblique lines are interrupted and then partially overlapped to simulate a dynamic effect.
The perception of movement is accentuated thanks to a well-calibrated use of metallic yarns that seem to dissolve as they fade into the silk background. Characterizing the collection's most regal fabric are some traits of the original drawing that become golden drips (a kind of dripping) emerging on luminous and reflective surfaces modelled by a warmer gold.
The fabrics that make up Rococo are nine: all silk and all produced in the Rubelli weaving mill in Como. Thanks to particular technical expedients, they lend themselves to being used on both sides. And precisely by virtue of the surprising diversity between front and back, each fabric is able to offer a dual proposal. The result is that the variations, from nine, become eighteen. As for the palette, Peter Marino has selected natural colours that evoke sketch paper, the sumptuous tones of gold and silver – undisputed protagonists of the new capsule – the bright shades of green, red and yellow, but also luminous accents that recall the brushstrokes of light in watercolour. All the new fabrics share that sparkling effect that for Peter Marino is essential and indispensable. Rich, elegant and refined, these new textile creations are particularly suitable for decoration.
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