The new project by Rubbettino and Lanificio Leo: Fables under the blankets is an innovative publishing and design project conceived for the magical moment of reading fairy tales, to unite children and parents in a multi-sensory experience.

Made thanks to the manufacturing skills of Rubbettino and Lanificio Leo, Fables under the blankets is a series of children’s books that combines each issue with a mini plaid illustrated in jacquard knit. The first two titles of the series refer to two of Aesop’s fables, “The tortoise and the hare” and “The deer and the lion”.

PRODUCT DESIGN  Material: Merino virgin wool woven Client: Rubbettino Editore + Lanificio Leo  Shop Libro + plaid: La lepre e la tartaruga / Il cervo e il leone Shop: Plaid: La lepre e la tartaruga / Il cervo e il leone

“Fables under the blankets is a quality Italian manufacturing project that follows the tradition of the book as a design object, an experimental edition for children that focuses on the cognitive development of the child.”

The books are conceived as a continuous drawing that develops over several pages bound together with fabric hinges. Handmade in Italy, they are made with the utmost care in FSC certified recycled cardboard. Each book can be opened completely to see the development of the story’s actions at a glance and also positioned horizontally or vertically, becoming a game.

In the special boxed version, each fairy tale is combined with a version of the same made on a mini plaid / tapestry in merino virgin wool woven by Lanificio Leo. It is a soft support on which even the very young child can visually read the story told by the parent, following the figures that illustrate the story, and at the same time immerse themselves in a warm embrace. The plaid can accompany the child from the first months as a blanket to childhood as a decorative tapestry for the bedroom.

play test shooting photo by Paolo Belletti

L'articolo Favole sotto le coperte – Lanificio Leo + Rubbettino-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

For the project “Animals: invisible stories” the designer has chosen to represent a snake with marble. It’s refer to the Ouroboros, a very ancient symbol, present in many peoples and in different eras, snake / dragon, circle without beginning or end: metaphor of death and rebirth.

The representation of this snake is made up of discs cut by numerical control and finished by hand joined by an elastic core which thus allows the object to be articulated and follow and support the profile of the books on which it is placed.

PRODUCT DESIGN  Material: Dark Portoro Where: Edit Napoli 2021 Client: Alfaterna Marmi

” Ouroboros represents a sort of “memento mori”, but also a symbol of knowledge and the possibility given by it, the only way that could guarantee us a future. “

The snake, writes Gaston Bachelard, is one of the most important archetypes of the human soul and therefore the most suitable for expressing the cycle between life and death, creation and destruction, with reference to the fact that one day many animal species, including the ours, may no longer be present on this planet, but there may be others as already happened in the past.

presentation at Edit Napoli 2020

L'articolo Uroboro – Alfaterna Marmi-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

The new collection produced with Alfaterna Marmi, presented in a small preview at Edit Napoli, aims to enhance the working of the chemical and physical elements on the surface of the stone slabs. The inspiration aims to highlight the aesthetic dimension assumed by the stone exposed to chemical, physical and biological agents.

To achieve this goal, we simulated the intervention of nature on it, through contact with various chemical agents, numerical control cutting and the skilful dexterity of Alfaterna Marmi’s artisans.

PRODUCT DESIGN  Material: Marble Where: Edit Napoli 2019 Client: Alfaterna Marmi Published on: Elle Decor, Interni

presentation at Edit Napoli 2019

” The project aims to be a hymn to the classicism of marble and the richness of its workmanship, in which the graphics of nature become a distinctive symbol of the project, capable of transmitting and evoking the history of the stone itself.

The project uses precious and original marbles, experimenting with finishes that will characterize each product in the collection, to bring to light a primordial materiality, generally absent from everyday objects.

Each piece has in its name a reference to the transformation phases undergone by the stone exposed to the natural elements: Erosion, Layering, Oxidation, Crystallization, Fracture.

L'articolo Cava – Alfaterna Marmi-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

Fly Chair: it’s a chair that “welcomes” who sits on it. Human anatomy is the inspiration of its ergonomic and “muscular” shape that reminds an insect. The basic structure is a single wooden piece of 1,5 thickness and supports the back through the lumbar area. Above these padding elements made of TST-ES by Albeflex there is a sliced flexible wooden panel with a foam that together give a soft touch.

PRODUCT DESIGN Product: Fly Chair Contest: Promosedia International Year: 2010

L'articolo Fly Chair – Promosedia-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

Fabriano is a basket made entirely of recycled paper. The thin layers consist of 50 disposable bags and when the bin is full you just have to extract the bag and throw it away, the layer beneath use to keep al the other elements together.
The shape of a “muffin cup” is easy to produce and allows to obtain the shape of a classic office bin, as well as it gives a personality to it.

PRODUCT DESIGN
Name: Fabriano
Waste Paper Bin
Year: 2010

L'articolo Fabriano Waste Paper Bin-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

The packaging used, which recalls the travelling theme, is made up of industrial materials to respect the environment. Something precious that comes from far away. It reminisces the origin of diamonds, as if it has just come from a mine: with no filters, as “natural” as possible. A new way to communicate an important product in a new and ironic way.

PRODUCT DESIGN AND PACKAGING Client: 3820 Hearts and Arrows What: Product Year: 2011

“The packaging used, which recalls the travelling theme, is made up of industrial materials to respect the environment. Something precious that comes from far away. It reminisces the origin of diamonds, as if it has just come from a mine: with no filters, as “natural” as possible. A new way to communicate an important product in a new and ironic way.”

L'articolo 3820 – Product-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

Fossil for Alessi is a project that won the honourable mention of the Concrete Design competition of 2013. Using light concrete patented by Italcementi, that can be used in private houses, we created plates with some fossils “Fossil” for Alessi, that recall the Alessi iconic products.

PRODUCT DESIGN Client: Alessi Where: Concrete in Design Contest Year: 2013

L'articolo Alessi – Fossil 2014-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

Renaissance Bathtub was created to break the symmetry of the bathtub. Giving value to asymmetry we create a new figure that puts an accent to the plastic material of Cristalplant. In so doing it creates two positions to live the bathtub in an unprecedented way. This bathtub has won the honourable mention of Cristalplant Contest 2014 and it has been designed for Agape.

PRODUCT DESIGN Client: Agape Where:. Cristal Plant Contest 2014 Year: 2014 Cristalplant Design Contest 2014

L'articolo Agape – Renaissance 2014-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

Domenico Orefice presents ‘Man de Milan’ (“Hands of Milan”), a collection of furni-ture in collaboration with artisans from Milan and Lombardy, that explores materials, history and the icons that belong to the city’s identity.

PRODUCT DESIGN 
Where: Salone Satellite – Salone del Mobile 2018
Year: Milan Design Week 2018
Photograph: Paolo Belletti

Published on: TL Magazine, Ninja Marketing

The furnace Curti of Milan is a historic site of the Lombardy scenery, where the history and the noble traditions of the Sforza family keep living. Today, the furnace that has relo-cated since its initial creation to the south of Milan, is occupied with artisans and artists that work side by side sculptors, to create a place that has stopped in time.

From the traditional manipulation of clay in the furnace, the Curti tiles was born: a se-ries of tiles, characterized by a modular design with a rhombus shape, that when com-bined, create an image of a city, and the project Salvadanè, inspired by the historic mod-el of a piggy-bank.

photo Paolo Belletti

The collaboration with the carpentry D3 Wood, that uses 0km-wood, local or reclaimed, gave birth to the bookshelf Mulino, inspired by the machinery designed by Leonardo Da Vinci, and to Ringhiera, a cabinet, inspired by the popular Lombard housings with interior courtyard.

In addition to these elements there is the carpet Nebbia, in the pattern of which one can observe the change of the atmospheric element fog through the years, and Zafferano, a table created from resin, colored with saffron.

L'articolo Man de Milan – Salone Satellite-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.

The ‘Mulino’ bookshelf was inspired by the machines, designed by Leonardo da Vinci in the Sforza era, as well as the symbolism of the windmill as an energy-producing element. The shape allows for a composition of more than one shelf, placing them on top of each other. It can be positioned against a wall, as well as in the center of a room. Thanks to the straight sides of its silhouette, the bookshelf remains equilibrated even when rotated, the books do not fall, but arrange themselves form one side to the other within its confines.

PRODUCT DESIGN  Material: Solid wood Walnut and Cedar (zero-km-wood, autochthonous or reclaimed) Where: Salone Satellite – Salone del Mobile 2018 Photograph: Paolo Belletti Year: Milan Design Week 2018 Photograph: Paolo Belletti Published on: TL Magazine, Ninja Marketing

“Thanks to the straight sides of its silhouette, the bookshelf remains equilibrated even when rotated, the books do not fall, but arrange themselves form one side to the other within its confines.“

photo: Paolo Belletti

L'articolo Mulino – Man de Milan-en proviene da Domenico Orefice Design Studio.