HAPPY PILLS & MURANA vase collection23. Mar2012
Among the latest creations of Milan designer Fabio Novembre are Happy Pills, a collection of vases that borrow its shapes from the medicine pills. Fabio Novembre's Happy Pills are part of a special series handmade from glass by the famous italian glass manufacturer Venini and stands among big names like Ponti, Scarpa, Sotsass, Mendini, Ando or Campana Brothers.
"Palazzo Grassi hosted in February 2012 the presentation of two new projects realized by Venini in collaboration with the Italian architect and designer Fabio Novembre. Known internationally, Fabio Novembre designes spaces and objects for the most important international contexts, from art to architecture and from fashion to design. For Venini he created two sets of objects, the collection ''Happy Pills'' and the vase ''Murana.'' The collection ''Happy Pills'' is composed of five vases inspired by the world of chemistry and medicine. The vase ''Murana'' reinterprets a key element of the imaginary of Fabio Novembre. The vases will be presented in the atrium of Palazzo Grassi, which houses the works by Jeff Koons and Joana Vasconcelos." - Venini
Happy Pills will be showed at Milano Design Week 2012.
"Usefulness is a concept that more and more fades away among the objects surrounding us. What we expect from these silent friends is to keep us company, make us laugh or in the best option, excite us. Hormonal chemistry influenced by material chemistry.Happy Pills are a placebo coming from Murano that, with shapes and colors, would substitute pharmacological solutions." - Fabio Novembre
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"According to the Venetian tradition wearing a mask means to deny one’s own identity escaping from social conventions and regaining the freedom that Wilde, in his famous quote, defines as sincere.Venini is one of the latest name that still evoke the magic of Venice, through sand and fire, colour and transparency, Prometheus myth and furnaces of Murano.
Murana is the name of the mask I have designed for Venini: a volume to wear for filtering the reality through the glass of its surfaces, a face without sexual or racial connotations able to represent every kind of humanity, a soul for an object that could be casually perceived as a vase…" - Fabio Novembre
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Fabio Novembre describes himself:Since 1966, I’ve responded to those who call me Fabio Novembre.
Since 1992, I’ve responded to those who also call me “architect”.
I cut out spaces in the vacuum by blowing air bubbles, and I make gifts of sharpened pins so as to insure I never put on airs.
My lungs are imbued with the scent of places that I’ve breathed, and when I hyperventilate it’s only so I can remain in apnea for awhile.
As though I were pollen, I let myself go with the wind, convinced I’m able to seduce everything that surrounds me.
I want to breathe till I choke.
I want to love till I die.
