A Milanese Utopia
Acerbis creative directors Francesco Meda and David Lopez-Quincoces have revisited the atmosphere of the Milanese living room of the Seventies with the installation “Nanda Vigo & Claudio Salocchi - a Milanese Utopia”, presented by Spotti on the occasion of Milan Design Week.

2024
Acerbis
Alberto Strada

The high quality of the materials and the excellent manufacturing techniques that characterize the Italian brand Acerbis emerge forcefully in this project of a distinctly Milanese interior. The living room, furnished with the ability to synthesize functionally, welcomes the strong visual accents staged by three pieces from the Remasters line: the Due Più armchairs by Nanda Vigo, and the Free System sofa and Napoleone table by Claudio Salocchi. Presented by Spotti during the Milan Design Week, this installation project develops on the earth tones of cream, brown and beige in their warmest declinations, in perfect balance with the colder and more decisive forms, given by large monolithic volumes, rational geometries in glass and thin and shiny metals.


The environment is complemented by an exclusive point of view on the spontaneous creativity that characterized the authors: the Due Più project, designed by Nanda Vigo in 1971 and composed of two furry rollers that seem to float, has often been considered a synthesis of the two souls of the designer - the esprit de géométrie and the eccentric and pioneering spirit interpreted by fur (now made from food production waste), a manifest combination of this "A Milanese Utopia". Claudio Salocchi, a radical innovator, instead imagined Free System in 1973 inspired by the tatami, in which the padded modules can be freely combined thanks to the combinability of the furnishing elements - in an era in which, in fact, rigid formal boundaries have been definitively demolished, both in society and in living. Napoleone was also born from this same movement, a private table for the two heads of the table to encourage equal discussion, made up of a brushed stainless steel bridge structure that connects the two sides, cut to accommodate opposing mirrors, and completed by a glass top - in this setting Napoleone is proposed in two coffee table versions.
A Milanese Utopia
Acerbis
Today, led by creative directors Francesco Meda and David Lopez Quincoces, it continues its avant-garde tradition, expanding research beyond the confines of the company archive and rediscovering historical projects with revolutionary modernity.
