On the occasion of Casa Pasarela, the international fair devoted to habitat in the city of Madrid, Porro presents the company to the Spanish public through a stand display shared with Living Divani.
The exhibition space, with design excellence and Italianness as the watchwords, proposes the concept of a large flexible and functional contemporary home where domestic spaces and operational environments are integrated, aiming at a harmonious fusion between the activities of home and those of the working environment.
This is not a chance concept, but one intended to underline the two faces of Porro's current production, today oriented - thanks to the new Homework collection - towards both the world of home and solutions for the office. Two distinct fields, handled by the company with the same design approach and capable of establishing a dialogue together in space, as it can be seen at Casa Pasarela.
The first ambiance proposes a dining- room , or a meeting- room according to the needs, made up by putting together the strict sign of Como seats in mongoi and fabric with the unbearable lightness of the Synapsis table: a spider's web of welded tubes that delicately supports an ultra-thin white Pral® top.
The modulable bookcase Systems NXT functions as a scenographic set, a classic piece of Porro collection presented in a new version which alternates mongoi and transparent crystal panels, which offers a wider pitch, more suitable to an office environment.
It is just one of the multiple compositions of Homework, the collection of products conceived to create a warmer and more comfortable working environment, generated by the transformation of Porro proposals for home. With this objective Lissoni has in fact redesigned firstly the HT, System NXT and Modern day systems and secondly pieces from other collections, including tables and bookcases, to adapt them - using new dimensions and proportions plus personalisations - both to operational use and to meet the demands of management environments.
The undisputed protagonist of the central living area is Modern, the system to have fun with dividing up the spaces in a rational way, through the projection of regular volumes generated by the repetition of a square module on the walls, the floor or in the centre of the room.
To make the game even neater and clearer, Porro chooses colour. The mars orange of the wall units, which become a kind of calling card for the company, and the mud colour for the closed spaces on the floor define the structure of the space, completed by upholstery and complements.
Balancing the lively colours of Modern is the natural geometry of Bibliotech, the modifiable wood wall bookcase available in the Mongoy finish.
In the last ambiance a management office is proposed, built by combining the essential and light sign of RAM table with a black painted steel structure and a black painted crystal top with a black anodised aluminium HT work unit .
Along with the systems, pieces from the other Porro collections complete the layout and make it more informal: these include the sophisticated Nouvelle Vague chaise longue designed by Christophe Pillet, capable of distinguishing a space thanks to its sinuous, enveloping profile, and the Reflection mirror with painted bronze structure.
The various ambiances of Porro home are scenographically illuminated by P-light lamps, a hand-made cascade of glass, available in the transparent version or, for an even more unusual effect, painted in black.