Downtown Design
redazione 15/12/2025

Decorative power

Decorative furnishing complements: from coat racks to bookshelves, transforming spaces with design, functionality, and character

Small objects, significant decorative power. Furnishing accessories express their vibrancy and versatility through careful aesthetic research and experimentation with forms, finishes, and materials. Within their contained dimensions, they manage to transform the environment, adding personality and style with discretion and character.

Song by Arper, design Lievore Altherr Molina

Song by Arper, design Lievore Altherr Molina

Italia by Desalto, design Luigi Landoni

Italia by Desalto, design Luigi Landoni

Song | Lievore Altherr Molina | Arper
Designed by Lievore Altherr Molina, Song is more than just a coat rack: it’s a symphony of forms and movements. Inspired by musical composition, this object transforms functionality into art, with modules of eight note-shaped arms that rotate independently. Song thus translates a simple yet ingenious idea into a furnishing accessory: creating graphic plays and dynamic geometries that come alive with coats and scarves, lending an original and rhythmic touch to any environment, whether wall-mounted or freestanding.

Italia | Luigi Landoni | Desalto
A 2011 re-edition, the Italia Side Table/Stool pays homage to the company’s metalworking know-how. Originally created in 2011 to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy, the Italia side table/stool returns in an iconic re-edition that keeps its symbolic soul intact while harmoniously evolving the design. Its shape takes inspiration from the section of a beam, modeled to evoke the capital letter “I,” and bears the number “18612011” embossed, the year of the proclamation of the Kingdom of Italy. It is made of cast aluminum and finished with a matte lacquer, a tribute to the company’s DNA and its industrial heritage.

Matau | Verter Turroni | Imperfettolab (in apertura)
Evoking traces of the past, Imperfettolab’s new seating is a work of experimental and unconventional design. Imperfettolab’s approach, which blends nature and illusion, craftsmanship and the dreamlike dimension, gives life to a new work balanced between design and art. Here is Matau, a sculptural seat and chaise longue with primitive charm. Designed by Verter Turroni and made of fiberglass, Matau is born from an apparent game of balances while retaining all its solidity: tall and narrow, it is completed by a powerful graphic sign in the space.

Original Ptolomeo by Opinion Ciatti, design Bruno Rainaldi

Original Ptolomeo by Opinion Ciatti, design Bruno Rainaldi

Vela by Riflessi

Vela by Riflessi

Original Ptolomeo | Bruno Rainaldi | Opinion Ciatti
Innovative and timeless, Opinion Ciatti’s original Ptolomeo is the icon of self-standing bookcases. Designed by Bruno Rainaldi, winner of the 2004 Compasso d’Oro award, Original Ptolomeo is and remains a furnishing icon. As a self-standing bookcase, it presents itself as a steel column to which thin shelves are joined – also in steel – that disappear as the column fills with books. Original Ptolomeo thus translates a simple yet ingenious idea into a piece of furniture: transforming a stack of books into a design object.

Vela | Riflessi
Riflessi combines technique and style in the Vela desk, conceived as a versatile and decorative piece of furniture. A new entry for 2025, the Vela desk is inspired by the contemporary and elegant design of the namesake armchair. Characterized by a minimal design and a slightly retro feel emphasized by the Bronze finish of the structure, the desk features a “soap-shaped” top in Canaletto walnut wood and an LED lighting system to illuminate the top. A sophisticated project that combines style and functionality enclosed in a refined aesthetic.

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