Salone del Mobile 2007
18-23 aprile

PAD. 7 STAND D15 - E18

Ghost House - concept by Piero Lissoni

In Ghost House, presented at the fair, the company carries through a reflection on an architectural scale, in the quest for space solutions more in accordance with contemporary living.
By focusing on the characters of use flexibility and transformation capability, Porro presents Pivot mobile furniture elements, devised by the Decoma Design team to enrich with new nuances the relationship between the rooms making up a home and a workplace.
Ghost house is a house that cannot be seen, hidden as it is by large dividing wings which, rotating around a corner stone, act now as a door, now as a mobile wall, now as an element for closing a bookcase rather than a walk-in closet. A house in continuous transformation, whose elements take on variable roles, satisfying the numerous requirements of the people who live there: closing, screening, splitting, but also connecting the rooms in a new, more dynamic relationship. A mechanism entirely housed in the core of every panel, and an unique patented technology enable a complete, silent rotation movement, with the possibility of stopping every 90°, and an un-invasive anchorage method which does not compromise floorings and ceilings.
The bearing structure - a filled panel with a thickness of 6 cm - moreover enables total customising in both height and width, to provide total adaptability for every architectural solution.
The dynamics of the ambient are made even more striking by the choice of a single colour, milk white, used for covering, with continuity one by one, all the elements of the Ghost House.
This uniformity is only apparent, since it reveals to the more watchful eye a delicate pallet played on imperceptible variations.
If the firm colour tone of the lacquered parts dominates in the Pivot mobile partitions, and in the new compositions for living areas of Modern and System NXT systems, the soft hues of Hemlock wood enrich the simple sign of the new Groove bench, while the white coloured glass is used for Sidewall, the new vertical bookcase.
The streaks of marble are protagonists of Yule table, in opposition to the softness of the padded leather which covers the new comfortable and wrap around H. Chair.
The overall effect is that of a construction in ice, played with white tones and transparencies: an unapproachable, aristocratic house, where the furnishing elements exceed their connotation of simple objects, transforming themselves into small architectures, under the banner of candour and dynamism.
Ghost House is the pretext to create intervention with an emotive, wide ranging impact, giving full expression to Porro spatial sensitivity, and shows its capacity to coherently work on a multiplicity of interior project levels: from architectural scale to the scale of the object.