All of the vitality and exuberance of their designer bursts forth, using many of the new wooden essences in Porro’s palette for a combination of coordinating colors: these are the new inlaid sideboards designed by Alessandro Mendini. For once, Porro forgets its usual minimalism and throws itself into the decoration exploration of wood; guided by the master, the par excellence interpreter of a playful approach, chromatic and irreverent in design. Two universes, seemingly poles apart meet, thanks to the shared passion for wood, in a volcanic mix that touches upon the two opposites of rationality and expressiveness. Coming onboard the Porro team are the Soda Des/gners. This creative design duo is made up of Nada Nasrallah and Christian Horner, designers coming from different backgrounds and national origins, but who met at the Department of Industrial Design at Vienna’s University of Applied Arts. Favoring purity and clarity of ideas and convinced that design needs no explanation because its objectives are directly revealed in the influence that it has on life’s daily rituals, they have created for Porro the Bellevue mirror, an object that is essential and, at the same time, ingenious.