Brassless

FAR is a parallel program curated by Studio Vedèt within the spaces of Nilufar for the past four years. The collective show BRASSLESS, initially presented at Nilufar Depot in 2020, will be presented in the frame of the design platform Alcova, during the Milan Design Week, next September. The show is a provocative yet light gesture which strikes an irreverent and playful attitude in response to a trend that has popped up everywhere in product and interior design, in companies and galleries — including Nilufar itself — in recent years.

BRASSLESS comments on the use (or abuse) of this metal, most popularly in the form of surface-layer-sheets that cover everything (and nothing in particular) in contemporary design, with little regard for the unique properties of brass. The show celebrates the return of material potentiality and meaning as urgent design topics, showing 11 projects (in different metals and 1 non-metal) that investigate physical and visual qualities of matter — exploring forms and avoiding uniformity.

In September BRASSLESS will colonise in one of the most beautiful rooms of the new magnificent Alcova location including three historical buildings of extraordinary charm, immersed in a large urban park.