This trip, three ways
The Dérive
The whole journey on a globe-to-street map — by air, road, rail and on foot, with every scan pinned where it was captured.
The Rhymes
The forms my tools grow from equations — fused blobs, tumbling cubes, radiating fans — found already built in Milanese foam and Venetian marble. The essay at the heart of it.
Field Scans
Twenty-five things I scanned along the way — Venetian marble and bronze, a gilt chair, forest land-art, a cork oak — turnable in your hand.
The projects this trip fed
renato.designDesigno
Milanese-postmodern modeler — the Triennale, Alessi and Memphis days are its research.
renato.designMarezzo
Italian marble & stone-floor generator — seeded by San Marco's opus-sectile and the porfido fans.
renato.designLiminaria
Venetian threshold furniture — the doorbells, nameplates and lions'-mouths read as social history.