Downtown Design
redazione 27/03/2025

Viva Woodstock

A breath of colour, of fantasy, of lightness. Spring brings a vibrant atmosphere to the décor. And it's immediately a Woodstock effect

August 1969. A huge green expanse and a sky tinged with psychedelic colours. Woodstock was more than a festival, it was a hymn to freedom on the notes of music legends. In those three days, a generation, a new culture, but also a spirit of freedom was established that continues to inspire.

Soriana Denim

Soriana Denim

Accompanying it was a style that reflected its spirit. Shaded hues, bright colours, crochet and patchwork, flower-power prints, fringes and leather, oversize moods.

Piping by Etro Home Interiors copia

Piping by Etro Home Interiors copia

All of this returns with the sparkle of the new season, which brings this vibrant appeal into the domestic setting through furnishings, complements and accessories that revive the magical fantasy of the era.

Tea Kettle Orange by Kaushalam, design Mrinalika Jain Bhardwaj

Tea Kettle Orange by Kaushalam, design Mrinalika Jain Bhardwaj

Cuscino leopard gold by Lisa Corti

Cuscino leopard gold by Lisa Corti

Starting with the Mind The Gap wallpaper collection directly inspired by the atmosphere of the festival, even in the name: Woodstock creates a domestic setting with a hypnotic character, an immersion of fragrances and bright colours

Woodstock by Mind The Gap

Woodstock by Mind The Gap

A floral style that returns in an extra-large version in the Carpet Edition Flower collection. In fact, the brand has drawn from Ken Scott’s archives to recreate on hand tufted carpets and tapestries the universe of colours, irony, flowers and abstract shapes typical of the famous painter and designer who marked fashion and design trends in the 1960s and 1970s.

Woven Brown Leather Magazine Rack, design Bonaldo Roger

Woven Brown Leather Magazine Rack, design Bonaldo Roger

Pouf, design Lorenza Bozzoli Couture

Pouf, design Lorenza Bozzoli Couture

Not to be outdone is the creativity of La DoubleJ, which leads us straight into a world of fantasy and liveliness: the designer has translated her iconic prints into a home decoration collection, to which the Bubble vase also belongs. This is also the case in the Piping coffee table by Etro Home Interiors, which uses Etro’s iconic Arnica print as the top cover.

Cassettiera by Molteni&C, design Gio Ponti copia

Cassettiera by Molteni&C, design Gio Ponti copia

This ethnic echo also envelops the decorative Kaushalam kettle by artist Mrinalika Jain Bhardwaj, hand-painted with floral motifs on a deep yellow ochre, inspired by Mughal motifs.

Vanità - Flower by Carpet Edition

Vanità – Flower by Carpet Edition

Scarabeo - Flower by Carpet Edition copia

Scarabeo – Flower by Carpet Edition copia

The 1960s and 1970s can also be traced back to the spread of particular fabrics, denim in primis. Cassina retrieved it and adopted it to dress an icon of its upholstered furniture collections, the Soriana armchair designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa: a limited edition Soriana Denim was born, covered with a precious Japanese denim which, thanks to a special treatment, obtains a shaded effect typical of worn jeans.

Arcipelago so by Contardi Lighing

Arcipelago so by Contardi Lighing

Dessert plat set of 2 by La DoubleJ

Dessert plat set of 2 by La DoubleJ

So too is woven leather, reinterpreted in contemporary forms in Bonaldo’s Roger basket and even more so in the Aria lounge chair by laCividina, which becomes an interior sculpture that defies lightness. Up to the fringes, which become the distinctive feature of the Arcipelago lamp by Contardi.

Farniente, design Paola Lenti

Farniente, design Paola Lenti

The relaxed mood of the era is revived with the armchair from the Bubble collection by Roche Bobois, with its multi-coloured upholstery, its ultra-padded volumes enclosing an explosion of comfort, through to the Farniente hammock by Paola Lenti: an invitation to relax under the open sky.

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