ARIA & CIELO — Salone del Mobile Shanghai

Air and sky—Aria & Cielo—form the conceptual horizon of our installation for the Shanghai chapter of the Salone del Mobile. Invited to present our lighting collection within a special exhibition curated together with IDEAT, the influential Paris-born design magazine now deeply rooted in Asia, we approached the pavilion not as a static display but as a living atmosphere.

The spatial condition was paradoxical: a long, narrow pavilion traversed by a central public passage. Rather than resist these constraints, we chose to work with them—embracing lightness, temporality, and movement.

Structural elements of the pavilion were wrapped with digitally printed skies, dissolving the architecture into an abstract horizon. Suspended above, hundreds of mirrored plastic ribbons—each measuring 6 meters by 50 centimeters—extend across the full twenty-meter length of the space. The material is deliberately simple, almost ephemeral.

Yet the installation only truly exists when inhabited.

As visitors walk through the passage, their movement generates subtle air currents that set the reflective ribbons into motion. The suspended surface begins to tremble like a metallic ribcage, fragmenting and distorting the printed skies, the lighting objects, and the bodies moving beneath them.

The result is a constantly shifting field of reflections—sky folding into light, light dissolving into movement.

For us, this gesture reflects a recurring fascination within our work: the idea that space should not remain fixed. Life is defined by flux, by transformation, by the invisible choreography of air itself.

In Aria & Cielo, the pavilion becomes less an exhibition than a transient atmosphere—where reflection, motion, and sky converge into a continuously evolving spatial experience.