This project merges a romantic personal story and my creative experiences with pliable materials, such as Alcantara®. When I was first invited to take part in the Palazzo Reale exhibition I immediately thought of something very dear to me, for which I had always imagined such a setting. Though Palazzo Reale holds beautiful Restoration furniture, it doesn’t seem to be a place where people ever slept, because there are no beds to be seen anywhere. As it happens, I own two beds in the same style which are a treasured family heirloom linked to a romantic story involving my maternal grandmother Milli Baldini. My parents slept in them for years and as a child I often played on them with them and my brothers. When I was asked to create something in Alcantara® for Palazzo Reale I thought of the two beds surrounded by the walls of a mini-room inside a larger room with fireplaces and mirrors decorated with the same gilded leaves. In order to make this “alcove” more intimate I printed the slanted threads of my Stendardi per Trude wallhanging on the walls of the mini-room and I wove them with long strips of the same material turned either on the right or wrong side. On a further intimate note, the members of the Studio di Tessitura Paola Besana took part in the weaving game.

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