INSILVIS

INSILVIS - LIFE OF FORMS IN ITALIAN DESIGN

INSILVIS was founded in 1994 in Pordenone, a city in the north-east of Italy, on the initiative of Massimiliano Pavon, in the wake of a family tradition of three generations of artists, working in painting, sculpture and architecture.

The project, on the borderline between art and design, and particularly attentive to the symbolic values of form, proposes a contemporary interpretation of the Italian cultural tradition.

Complex and millennial layers see art and material culture as inextricably linked to landscape identity, the expression of a natural reality that has recorded and incorporated every trace of human events.

This wealth of references is the driving force behind the project, which is finally realized in physical form; the techniques of high Italian artisan craftsmanship, handed down from generation to generation, offer a new sensory recognition to natural materials such as metal, marble, wood and leather, often the expression of local territorial identities.

The Latin phrase "in silvis" (in the woods) was chosen to express the initial

orientation of the technical and artistic project, which favoured solid wood with a natural finish, assembled without the use of metal parts.

Belong to these early years realizations of particular iconic quality, including pulpits and altars for places of worship, lecterns and tables for exclusive places.

Over time, contacts are established with a demanding and expert international clientele, expressing diverse cultural backgrounds. At the same time, the opportunities for discussion with international architectural firms and the most advanced references in the world of art and design are multiplying.

This international openness has led INSILVIS to explore the potential of other materials of high intrinsic quality and durability, each with its own structural, aesthetic and energetic characteristics, applied to different functional categories.

An unconventional style is defined: contemporary for its attention to the evolution of tastes but classic because it is not subject to the succession of fashions; innovative for its incessant functional investigation and excellent for the search for uncompromising quality in both content and form.

Each object represents a memory of Italian culture in its physical, perceptual, cultural and emotional values.

Being part of a context dense with advanced manufacturing realities allows INSILVIS to respond to demanding challenges, while preserving the original spirit of the craft and artistic workshop. The most advanced production processes are filtered through the artisan quality of Italian manufacturing, with careful realizations limited to small series, bordering on unique pieces, with a "sartorial" perspective.

Special consideration is given to hanging.

The scrupulous attention paid to the functional aspects is not a limitation but a stimulus to interpret the objects as true protagonists of space.

INSILVIS art-design works are characterized by a peculiar balance between form and function, art and design; this is expressed in the iconic quality of the object and its interactions with space, some of which are immediately recognizable, others more subtle and ethereal.

The social and cultural sharing dimension of the functional design object is always supported by an affective "coloring" that comes from the love and care that goes into the design, the finish and the materials, to accompany domestic life day after day.

The plastic representation of an ancient breath welcomed in contemporaneity, in tune with the harmonic laws that govern the greater reality, constitutes the primary expressive intentionality of INSILVIS.

What we believe in:

- uncompromisingly high quality of materials and of each manufacturing operation;

- accurate small-scale manufacture with attention to details in the tradition of the excellent Italian craftsmanship;

- manual artistic processing which allows some of our products to set themselves apart from the serial industrial production;

- predilection for primary, durable, traditional materials;

- unconditional attention to the functional aspects;

- contemporary style for a contemporary home;

- unconventional design, bordering on art and art-design. The art-design field has the freedom of art with not just the essential aim of design, which is a positive feedback and the purchase of a piece to satisfy a need;

- attention to the symbolic values of forms;

- irony, levity, decontextualization;

- territorial identities: some designs, material coordination and processes are suggested by the cultural and environmental identities of our land;

- expression of the Italian culture: physical, perceptual, cultural, emotional values.