Barbaro

On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2026, within 230 Volt-i, the installation conceived by Giulio Iacchetti for Vimar at Superstudio Maxi Barona, a face inspired by the imagery of a magical creature takes shape, suspended between ancestral presence and contemporary figure.

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The cover plate from the Plana wiring accessories collection becomes the starting point for an intervention that transforms an everyday object into a small expressive entity, almost ritualistic in nature. In this case, the switches are reinterpreted as the teeth of the creature, becoming defining features of a mask that is at once ironic and mysterious, capable of evoking fantastical worlds and primitive memories.

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A functional and serial object thus loses its invisibility to become a narrative presence: a small domestic being that observes, communicates, and brings emotion back into the space.