Versace Presents New Course of Home Line With Exhibition During Design Week

MILAN — Marking the new course for Versace Residence, the Milan-based mostly manufacturer is staging an set up at the Palazzo della Permanente throughout the city’s Design Week.

Donatella Versace has partnered with architects and designers Roberto Palomba and Ludovica Serafini to present the brand’s most up-to-date dwelling assortment and introduce its new outdoor line, reflecting the company’s designs to even more increase the division. As described, Versace House was previously produced internally, but final year the enterprise unveiled the first layouts underneath a licensing arrangement inked with Luxury Residing, element of Way of life Design and style Group, in the slide of 2020.

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Andrea Gentilini, main executive officer of Luxurious Residing Group, mentioned the tie-up with Palomba and Serafini — who are “designers at an international amount,” identified as a result of far more than 70 global awards, such as the prestigious Compasso d’Oro — was “a elementary element” in this new chapter of Versace Household. 

Their complex know-how and their abilities in fashionable layout are “extraordinary, as is their skill to combine a contemporary eyesight of society with a specific knowledge of the historic and cultural roots of the style and design environment, enabling the creation of unique parts that join together the earlier, present and potential,” mentioned Gentilini.

The set set up is bold, with purple just one of the primary hues, expressed in the selection in a range of shades across materials, leathers, valuable silks and jacquards. Graphic operates and LED walls create a dreamlike state of affairs.

Designs have generally been a signature of the brand name and this season, La Greca, which has been seen in the most current Versace fashion collections, is back again in household furniture, much too, in a 3D model that is “almost architectural,” claimed Gentilini.

The Venus chair is refreshed with new aspects and the Stiletto collection is offered in whole white, beige and burnt browns. Gentilini pointed to the Stiletto line, marked by furnishings legs in the form of shoe stilettos, as a bestseller, as is the V21 Signature sofa.

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The La Medusa collection is displayed in an all-new vinyl masking — also a reference to Versace’s most up-to-date trend present —  including a sofa, a bed and a Trono armchair.

The new Stiletto Out of doors assortment will be revealed in the Mystery Backyard of the Permanente. The foundation in textured
white or bronze-lacquered metal is concluded with a a few-dimensional weave of fabric straps, coordinated with big, cozy cushions. Deal with fabrics investigate bold and vivid colours these as lime green, fuchsia, Klein blue and yellow, with the very same shades viewed on chairs and armchairs.

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The home assortment will be existing in all of Versace’s right operated retailers close to the planet — in Los Angeles, New York, Miami — and is previously exhibited in the London and Paris units, as properly as in the monobrand keep that opened in Milan’s Via Durini past 12 months. Additional retail store openings are in the pipeline, reported Gentilini.

“In the medium time period, we will carry on to devote equally in distribution and in solution improvement, as effectively as in model conversation and advertising and marketing,” continued the govt. “We consider that the possible of Versace Property is really very crucial we aspire to reach remarkable measurement and visibility.”

Asia, The united states and the Center East, in addition to Europe, are Versace Home’s principal marketplaces, he presented. 

Versace was just one of the very first vogue homes to start home interiors in 1992, concentrated 1st on textiles. Porcelain tableware collections adopted, motivated by the brand’s exclusive designs, this sort of as the Baroque themes, the Greek frieze, the signature Medusa head and some of the prints from the style collections, these kinds of as the Jungle print — forever involved with Jennifer Lopez and her 2000 Grammy Awards costume.

The selection has developed to involve apparel for the bed room and lavatory, home furnishings, wallpaper and add-ons like vases, candles and even sculptures. The agreement with Life-style Design and style pertains only to Versace’s household furniture. The brand’s textiles and components will continue on to be manufactured internally, though Rosenthal stays its ceramics licensee, which will rejoice a 30-year collaboration in 2023. AS Création and Gardenia will proceed to deliver Versace’s wallpaper and floor tiles, respectively.

In July 2020, Lifestyle Structure (Poltrona Frau Team) alongside one another with Haworth Inc. obtained the storied Italian furnishings and interiors style and design company Luxury Dwelling Group.

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