New Porro Collections at Spichernraum

To coincide with the IMM, the main fair event devoted to design in the city of Cologne, Porro present all the innovations of the year just ended and the most representative products of their collections in their permanent shop, Spichernraum, which came about from their partnership with Living Divani.

In a charming exhibition space with double height environments and views out onto the outside courtyard, the public can visit the latest interpretation by Piero Lissoni: a large flexible and functional contemporary home where domestic spaces and operational environments are integrated, aiming at a harmonious fusion between the activities of the 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 the 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 happens in the arrangement of Spichernraum.

It is in fact from the continuous flow of environments with a double functionality that the Porro house in Cologne came about.
Going in through the main entrance, the exhibition route winds through two large living zones connected by a central corridor.
The undisputed protagonist of both day spaces 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 choose 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 are in fact combined in the shop windows.
Balancing the lively colours of Modern is the natural geometry of Bibliotech, the modifiable wood wall bookcase available in the Mongoy finish, as well as the unbearable lightness of the Synapsis table: a spider's web of welded tubes that delicately supports an ultra-thin white Pral® top.
Looking out onto the internal courtyard is a proposal for the management office, built by combining the P.04 carbone oak table with the Spindle black leather chairs, a black anodised aluminium HT work wall unit and a Spring green Modern composition with sliding doors.
These are just two of the multiple compositions of Homework, the collection of products conceived to create a new type of working environment, one that is warmer and more comfortable, generated by the transformation of Porro proposals for the 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.

Climbing to the upper floor you enter the bedrooms, the undisputed kingdom of Storage, the system of wardrobes and cabinets through which Porro fully express their personality.
The wardrobes and cabinets were significantly restyled in 2006: from the new extra-thick doors to the transparent glass drawers that enable their contents to be seen perfectly, to the particular trunk effect variant in which all the internal metal parts are painted, so as not to contrast with the natural Mongoy wood, transmitting the typical warmth of a piece of antique furniture.
Pure and silent volumes, these elements become functional yet exciting presences in the bedroom.



Objects to choose, touch, look at and personalise, both inside and outside.
If in the first bedroom Storage is presented in the elegant two-colour system that sets the sensuality of polished white lacquer against the warmth of natural Mongoy wood, in the second there is the open wardrobe system, so large and elegant as to become a room to live in its own right.
Rich Mongoy equipment animates its essential airy structure, supported by shiny profiles with geometrical rigour.
The bed presented is Modulor, a compact volume composed of 4 elements combined together: a carbone oak central core, a large headboard covered in black leather and two platforms with polished black lacquered drawers; almost an abstract composition in space, playing on both on the regularity of the forms and asymmetries in the arrangement of the various parts.
Completing the night zone are the horizontal design of the Unité D. chest of drawers, in the version with Mongoy levelling feet and the joyous colour of the Truffle small armchair, proposed in the Spring green finish and raised on a metal swivel base.

The various rooms of the Porro home are illuminated scenographically by P-light lamps, a hand-made cascade of glass, available in the transparent version or, for an even more unusual effect, painted black.