Light, colour, matter, reflections. There is a universe of sensory experiences that shapes Venini‘s new exhibition at Downtown Design Dubai. A setting created to interpret the soul of the brand and its expertise in shaping forms and emotions. Amber Mirage is therefore more than an exhibition installation: it is a story where design meets art, inspiration blends with light, and design with imagination. With Amber Mirage, Venini celebrates the charm of the Middle East – a key market for the brand and always a great admirer – recreating its atmospheres, colours and depths. The stand is modelled on shades of amber, from golden honey to intense brown, evoking the nuances of sand dunes sculpted by the wind and illuminated by the sun.
Volcano Collection by Venini
Immersed in this setting, the brand’s glass creations create a vibrant play of reflections and references: the stars of the show are Venini’s lighting collections and its modular systems, which interact with the space through light and a strong handcrafted materiality. These solutions showcase the company’s design expertise and sartorial know-how.
Venini has interpreted the artistic tradition of Murano in a contemporary vision, capable of fitting into tailor-made projects with great visual and aesthetic impact. This approach is perfectly interpreted by the Volcano collection.
Volcano Collection by Venini
Murea Collection by Venini
Inspired by Manfredo Vaccari Giglioli’s 1970s design for the Cassa di Risparmio di Cento, Volcano reinterprets the Italian architectural vision of the time in a modern key: blocks of glass that flank us and come together to create a pattern of light. The smooth surfaces and warm tones are a direct reference to nature and the primordial force of magma, creating a landscape in motion thanks to tiles in three different shapes and heights.
Meanwhile, the integrated, dimmable lighting system gives the glass changing depths and shades of colour. This same ideal, in which glass creates highly decorative backdrops, is also revived in the Murea collection, a modular system that transforms the wall through the evocative power of Murano glass.
Murea Collection by Venini
Murea Collection by Venini
Compositions of mouth-blown glass blocks create living surfaces in a constant dialogue between design and architecture. Lightweight yet solid structures create tactile textures that lend character and a poetic touch to any environment. Each element embodies a thousand-year-old tradition, handed down from generation to generation, reinterpreted and enhanced by Venini in a process of constant development in which glass reveals itself in new expressions.
