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Bolina Room Divider by Alessandra Meacci |
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FS: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?
AM: I try to design versatile, multitasking and functional objects. Starting from modern living needs ( functional or emotional), I try to develope a design easy to understand and to use, amazing and touching; my design, at the same time, meets business requirements, with small packaging easy to transport.
FS: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?
AM: Through Bolina I attempted to find a solution at some of the modern house problems: the lack of intimacy of open spaces and the difficulty to have plants and green corners in small apartaments. I designed an element answering to both this problems: a circular room divider that can be a stand alone object or a part of modular system, creating a sinuous colored wall; at the same time, it can be used to grow a vertical garden with little space encumbrance
FS: What are your future plans for this award winning design?
AM: I’m looking for a productor. I think Bolina can have a future not only in private home interior, but also in retail design, for shops or hotel halls.
FS: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?
AM: I’m an architect and an interior designer, so often my inspirations came from problems or needs that I find in modern space projects. I draw Bolina when I was working on a living project where I needed a particular room divider; then I develop the idea of a circular module standing alone or used togheter like a part of one structure, in order to create a sinuous colored wall. That’s the starting point to develope the design product “Bolina”.
FS: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?
AM: At this moment I’m searching for a brand to produce it.
FS: What made you design this particular type of work?
AM: I’m very interested in the idea of growing small interior gardens in apartaments or houses. I like to use plants as architectural elements in interior design, so I look for unconventional way to insert them in the forniture, and to place pots at different heights.
FS: Who is the target customer for his design?
AM: When I started to deveplope this project, I was thinking about my target: the young dynamic peolpe who live in small houses without gardens. They often have to move house, sometimes even to share loft or open spaces with no intimacy. I designed a room divider that allows to create a small vertical garden in a little space, with a structure and a covering that can be easily packed in a small box, shipped and re-built.
FS: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?
AM: Bolina concept it’s quite similar to wire design forniture, but my challenge was replacing wire with sailing rope. I had this idea while I was looking for a way to make a wire circular screen with a low budget. I thought that sailing rope allowed me not only to reduce the production cost, but also to develope a room divider that, disassembled, would be packed in a small volume, and transported or easily shipped. The pulled rope looks like the wire and makes easy a colour costumization of Bolina.
FS: How did you come up with the name for this design? What does it mean?
AM: Bolina is the italian word for close-hauled: it’s the nautical word that describes the direction of the boat when it sails returning wind upstream. As Anyone who love sailing, in my opinion Bolina is the gait more funny and daring, because you never know how much you can close the wind. As I took some ideas and materials for this project from the nautical word, so it seemed me suitable to choose this name.
FS: What is the most unique aspect of your design?
AM: I think it’s a double aspect: not only the choice of the material but also the structure design
FS: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?
AM: When I’m developing a project, I learn a lot from the artisan who build my prototypes. In particular with Bolina, I analized some important details with my blacksmith
FS: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?
AM: As I explained, my creative challenge was to develope a wire design piece of forniture, replacing wire with sailing rope. Then I focused on the structure: one of my target was to find a type of assembly that can be done without take off the rope. Also I wanted a lightweight and see through object, that, disassembled, can be packed in a small volume; I studied a structure easy and quick to assembly, strong and resistant to compression and torsion force (caused by the pulled rope). I tried different type of bars and fixing system for the vertical struts before to find a balance between all these requirements and aestethic
FS: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?
AM: I presented Bolina in Salone Satellite in Salone del Mobile during Milan design Week 2016; people liked it so much that I finally decided to submit it also to international design competitions
FS: Thank you for providing us with this opportunity to interview you.
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