Zanellato and Bortotto have selected six different environments, located in precise contexts and areas, and identified a specific effect caused by the ageing process in each of them – the faded fresco on the wall of a villa, the damp found on plain or decorative plasterwork or the form of rust stains on walls.

To apply an emotional synecdoche, the wall becomes a metaphor for experience, the “skin” which accumulates and reveals the passing of the years, the surface on which time itself is deposited. The walls of a room are the surfaces on which the moods, moments and stories it has contained are deposited, transforming their appearance and leaving visual records of the unique events of which they are the silent custodians.

Designers: Giorgia Zanellato & Daniele Bortotto