Little Italy

‘Little Italy’ is a new body of work by designer Fanny Serouart, presented for the first time at Alcova. Exploring how form can carry memory, the project was initiated during her residency at Villa Albertine in New York, in collaboration with artisans from the Corning Museum of Glass. Engaging the material as both structure and gesture, the work draws on a lineage shaped by the dialogue between Murano glassmaking traditions and the American Studio Glass movement. Displaced from its traditional use and combined with leatherwork, the blown element becomes something to be held. Each piece reveals how a savoir-faire can be translated, embedded and sustained through form.

Fanny Serouart is a French designer whose work explores how form can carry memory across materials and contexts. Raised between northern France and Brittany, she developed an early sensitivity to matter, gesture and place. Trained at École Boulle and ENSCI–Les Ateliers, she refined her approach through experience in the automotive industry, specializing in Colors, Materials and Finishes (CMF design), alongside a practice in leathercraft. Through LÉCLISSE, she extends this research into a broader design language, translating savoir-faire into new forms where material, technique and narrative converge.