SAVE THE DATE 14 - 21 September 2025 - Lake Como Design FestivalSusanna Costantini and Antonio Barone create a textile dividing element that evokes ‘edging’ as a metaphor for the selective process of memory, enhancing the marginal and forgotten element in a dialogue between preservation and abandonment.
Lake Como Design Festival continues its journey from 14th to September 21st 2025 in the city of Como and around its lake. Fragments is the leitmotif of this new event that accompanies the visitor on a diffuse journey to discover exhibitions and site-specific installations to explore the theme from different points of view. The 2025 open call invited designers, artisans, architects and artists to explore three design perspectives: fragility – the aesthetics of breaking and transformation, the value of the ephemeral and the mutable; the regenerative act – recomposition and recovery, transforming waste into new objects filled with meaning; and memory – as an archive of fragments, a vehicle for stories, techniques and past or forgotten cultures.
SPIGOLATURE
Weaving as a form of writing with an inherent narrative process.
TERRAE
Hand woven works inspired by lunar maps.
Textile prototyping
Superstrings outdoor fabrics for ARKF by Antonio Barone
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Opus
This series takes inspiration from the ancient construction technique of the stone huts (tholos), ancient rural shelters used by shepherds in central Italy. The stones were carefully chosen and superimposed layer by layer without the use of lime or bonding material. Somehow it is a kind of wall weaving where each stone between the interstices contributes to stability.
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Bandiere
The Flag series is a homage to the archaic nature of Abruzzo with its wide and still wild spaces. These Flags are made of wool, the soft, warm and generous material used by shepherds to protect themselves from the cold temperatures of prairies. Flags are crafted by using mainly Abruzzo-sourced organic wool from grazing sheep in the Campo Imperatore, an area at over 2000 metres of altitude.
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Spigolature
Inspired by Agnes Varda’s documentary Les glaneurs et la glaneuse, these textile panels are the result of a 'gleaning' process. The gleaning activity is something necessary we practice everyday and it has something to do with the recovery of value both material and emotional. The practice of gleaning brings with it a moment of choice, you evaluate, you decide whether to let go, recovering or processing.
the little leaf.
The little leaf is the symbol that accompanies each woven creation.
