Departure Gate
and filled the air with a gentle mist, Lasvit’s showcase in the courtyard of Palazzo Isimbardi was an) to market the company’s architectural fabrication capabilities, encouraging potential collaborators to dream up their own similarly ambitious projects. Closer inspection revealed a range of charming surface treatments: The bed of someone’s sneakers had been imprinted into one panel, while another featured a mottled relief that evoked lunar craters. So even though the door-ways (which went on to win the Fuorisalone Award, recognizing the year’s best off-site exhibition) didn’t technically lead anywhere, they still shimmered with the promise of things to come.
