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Flagship Store | Via Pontaccio 8/10, Milan

NORMAL NON-NORMAL

Normal Non-Normal

Milano Salone del Mobile 2025

“Normal” is what goes unnoticed because considered appropriate; it’s predictable and, therefore, convenient; it’s a door open to all, a world free of risks, emotions and provocations. It’s an appearance to unveil, a focus on the present indispensable to nourish our need for security, perspectives and new horizons. “Normal” is an interference, an option that stimulates us not to be normal.

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Opening hours:
April 8th – 10AM to 5PM
April 9th to 12th – 10AM to 8PM
April 13th – 10AM to 6PM

Moroso presents the new products for 2025 by integrating, within the Flagship Store at via Pontaccio 8, worlds as different as they seem to contradict each other.

An operation, opposed to the growing desire for simplification, which presupposes the understanding of space as a set of events intimately interconnected, where “normality” is understood as a polymorphic notion capable of reconnecting the practice of design with those qualities that, in recovering an apparent sobriety only, seem to be universally understandable.

A research that inevitably starts from comfort, to emphasize the desire of the company to dwell on the different ways of interpreting it and reconnect with people through sensory experiences focused primarily on deep bodily sensations and, for this, totalizing. A topography of living to be explored through the works of Patricia Urquiola, García Cumini and Zanellato/Bortotto, true coordinates able to accompany us to the discovery of materials, fabrics and processes that, in their complementarity, summarise some of the most relevant aspects in contemporary design culture.

If in Cuadra-Soft, a modular sofa designed by Patricia Urquiola, comfort is the starting point for rethinking the design oriented to the principles of sustainability and circular economy, in Me-Time by Garcìa Cumini the invitation, exquisitely emotional, is to escape from the frenzy to regain the pleasure of staying. A dichotomy between rational and instinctive, between conventional and informal that, in its exquisitely human nature, emphasizes the importance of the handcrafted gesture, well represented in the experimental use of the ceramic enamel of the Clay armchair by Zanellato/Bortotto.

A survey that, far from being elitist or anachronistic, looks to the future with a selection of three projects developed by HfG students, Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design under the supervision of designers Wieki Somers and Freia Achenbach and supported by Moroso. Projects to be read as the prologue of something not yet seen, three-dimensional projections of a “normality” yet to come.

“Normalità” finally sublimated by “Lo spazio è un’illusione” (“Space is an illusion”), an exhibition that pays tribute to the work of Nanda Vigo integrating into the presentation a curated selection of lamps and objects from the Archive Eredi Nanda Vigo. Works that, in continuity with the thought of the designer/ artist, play with perceptive ambiguities in a constant balance between intimacy and appearance, between public and private, Promoting the home into a space that can transform people’s lives themselves into a work of art.

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UNWIND, UNPLUG, DISASSEMBLE

Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG) for Moroso

In 2024, students from the University of Arts and Design Karlsruhe (HfG) organized, in collaboration with Moroso and under the supervision of Wieki Somers and Freia Achenbach, a transformative exploration through the seminar “Unwind, Unplug, Disassemble” to explore sustainable practices and challenge the use of environmentally unfriendly materials and techniques in furniture design.

Students have developed innovative concepts, carried out in-depth research on materials and created prototypes by exploring the limits of disassembly structures and recyclability. Through their work, they have critically analysed different production processes to find ways of integrating sustainability at every stage. In addition to the technical exploration, the students have delved into the world of relaxation putting comfort at the center of their search, drawing inspiration from everyday life and home scenery. Their discoveries have finally been transformed into physical projects imagined as media able to promote relaxation in private and public spaces and how this concept is reflected in our time.

Within the framework of the collaboration with Moroso, the selected projects were realized in real scale, allowing to observe the transformation of a concept into a functional prototype, ready to be tested in the real world. Particular attention was paid to materialization, details, proportions, context and production feasibility.

During the Salone del Mobile, inside the Flagship Store in Via Pontaccio, three projects will be exhibited: RE:JOIN by Tim Miller, Generative Joy by Emanuel Spiecker and Array by Benjamin Kaltenbach and Erik Grunder.

The University of Arts and Design in Karlsruhe (HfG) is a university known for its interdisciplinary and project approach to design and art education. With degree programs in communication design, product design, media art, exhibition design, scenography, art studies, media theory and media philosophy, students are encouraged from the very beginning to integrate theory with practical work.

Product Design for HfG Karlsruhe

Product design has the potential to challenge our way of life and can offer new perspectives for a world where ideas about environment, politics and society are constantly changing.

The Product Design department at HfG Karlsruhe focuses on finding innovative ways to design with a purpose and responsibility, Exploring the boundaries between the home landscape and public space, and investigating the role that materiality and craftsmanship can play in an increasingly digital world.

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Friday 11 – Sunday 13
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