City-life

NATEVO_Nunziati Apartment

NATEVO, the new brand created by Flou, produces a complete range of furnishings that all include one extremely unusual feature: they have been fitted with LED lights that illuminat their surroundings. An apartment furnished with pieces from the NATEVO range will have no need for lamps, chandeliers and other light fittings with undeniable advantages in energy, financial and ecological terms.

The first apartment we present here, was designed by Matteo Nunziati, who designed the furniture and the accessories for the home décor.
Natevo then developed the illumination technology project.

The second and third apartments will be designed by Salerno-based Studio Viscido (Italy) and the architecture studio Toner Architects from Istabul. In turn, the designers will create the Natevo furniture for the interior décor.

For the furnished apartment with Natevo items, for the residential block designed by Zaha Hadid in Milan’s real estate complex CityLife, we wished to create a pleasant and contemporary atmosphere, with elements that were both basic and emotionally-charged.

The products designed were inspired by the German rationalism of Bauhaus, where performance and purpose are transformed into beauty and elegance.
The characteristic feature common to all pieces of furniture are the straight, sharp, decisive lines, a sort of geometric scaffolding that produces bookcases, storage containers, dining tables, coffee tables, armchairs, beds and wardrobes.

The light fittings are included inside pipes and the end-result is an eye-catching contrast between the shape of the structure and the gentle embrace of the indirect light.
Traditional and sophisticated materials have been used in the production of the furniture: aluminium, wood and marble.

The contrast perceived is transformed into the balance between antique and modern, between contemporary lines, innovative technology and surfaces extracted from memory.
In this project, we tried to achieve equilibrium between esthetics and performance, poetry and purpose, emotion and practical use.

For this reason we feel particularly close to the interior design for CityLife. The idea was to create products and ambiences in which light was envisaged as an innovative solution for furnishing the home. Integration of light in furnishings eliminates the need for the majority of light fittings (for both technical and decorative illumination), their associated cost, the complicated installations involving channels for connecting the cables, the fuse boxes, electrical connections and masonry work on the ceilings or on the walls.

The process is very simple: the pieces of furniture are positioned according to the plans, the plug is inserted like a normal decorative lamp and this creates extraordinary illumination and esthetic effects.
This solution is an interesting one, not just for the domestic market but also in large real estate projects, hotels or residential properties; as the total number of fittings required for a residential complex is much greater than the number for an individual home, it is an essential factor of any building construction project to contain the costs of installation, maintenance and purchase of each individual product.

This collection provides the real estate investor with the possibility of eliminating all of the light fittings simply by integrating them in the furniture itself; management is straightforward and the esthetic standards and the quality are extremely high.

Interior design: Matteonunziati