Some objects carry within them the memory of desire.
The elaborate furnishings of the early twentieth century were the dream of families who went into debt to own them
— masterpieces of anonymous craftsmen, today abandoned by antique dealers and forgotten in the margins of contemporary taste.
DUO is an act of rescue and reinvention.
A project born from the dialogue between two generations, two countries, two visions
— a father in Italy, a daughter in Denmark — working together on an exclusive production that transforms discarded heritage into living narrative.
The reference is the Neo-Renaissance style reinterpreted through the lens of Sottsass's neoclassicism: not a simple restyling, but the writing of a neo-neo-classicism where two fairy-tale aesthetics merge into a single, coherent language.
The collection comprises two pieces, both conceived as tributes to the world of books — because nourishing oneself with knowledge is the most radical act of beauty.
In the first piece, a pink Neo-Renaissance table becomes one with a neoclassical-style bookcase: furniture and library fused, where sitting means being surrounded by stories.
In the second, a Savonarola chair is framed within a portal that is itself a bookcase — a throne with its own literary crown, where the act of reading becomes ceremony.
DUO was born from a European grant competition — and won it. But above all, it was born from the most intimate collaboration possible: the one between a parent and a child, building something together across distance, with patience, care, and shared vision.
Limited edition — handcrafted wood, painted finishesRaoul Gilioli & Sofia Gilioli, 2024