Marco Lavit by Lelièvre Paris

October 2023

Galleria Rossella Colombari Gallery presents the exhibition GEOMETRIE, in collaboration with Marco Lavit and the historic French fabric company Maison Lelièvre.

The project, with a selection and installation curated by Rossella Colombari, narrates Marco Lavit’s work and his first collaboration with Lelièvre Paris with his collection of rugs Finis Terrae as well as two new rugs, in a limited edition designed specifically for the gallery on this occasion.

Marco Lavit's carpets relate to concepts such as geography, Greek myths and a play with geometry and its intrinsic musicality.

Through these themes, Rossella Colombari expresses her own approach to the selection of historical design, presenting pieces by architects such as Gio Ponti, Franco Albini, Ettore Sottsass and others, who in the 1960s and 1970s examined the essentiality of forms and their functional characteristics when inserted into an architectural context.This project, in its search for form and contact between historical and contemporary, matter and volume, aspires to achieve a set of dimensional relationships closely linked to each other in an attempt to codify geometric rules in their capability of ensuring beauty to an object; perceived as a single element or within a space in its totality.

Photo by Christopher Ghioldi

https://galleriarossellacolombari.com/exhibition.php?id=geometrie

LILELO Little Leisure Lodge - Arch. Marco Lavit di Atelier LAVIT

Un eco-lodge sulle colline del Monferrato pensato come un’evoluzione della capanna primitiva e dove il legno si fa involucro protettivo.

Motivazione della giuria:

Scelto per l’efficace relazione non prevaricante sul paesaggio in cui si inserisce, il progetto reinterpreta la classica forma della capanna con leggerezza ed eleganza. Lo slittamento delle due superfici inclinate al colmo dell’involucro libera il manufatto dalla consueta gravitas, trasformando un’architettura di forma archetipa in tutt’altro: un insediamento contemporaneo ed efficiente. L’accuratezza della composizione degli elementi lignei — strutturali e non — favorisce l’esibizione della mono-matericità senza tradire la delicatezza della stereometria. Ogni singolo “eco-lodge” è caratterizzato da una struttura collaborante di travi in legno accoppiate, posate in una sequenza paratattica semplice a definire il tetto/facciata, ed i controventi realizzati con sottili tiranti in acciaio. L’innesto tra le travi accoppiate, il profilo di fissaggio in metallo per l’attacco a terra e l’integrazione delle finestre a nastro in alto enunciano le rispettive caratteristiche dei materiali combinandoli in un’architettura semplice nella concezione e nell’esecuzione.

LILELO Little Leisure Lodge

An eco-lodge on the Monferrato (North of Italy) hills conceived as an evolution of the primitive hut and where wood becomes a protective casing.

An effective relationship that does not overwhelm the landscape in which it is inserted, the project reinterprets the classic shape of the hut with lightness and elegance. The sliding of the two inclined surfaces at the top of the envelope frees the building from its usual gravitas, transforming an architecture with an archetypal form into something completely different: a contemporary and efficient settlement. The accuracy of the composition of the wooden elements - structural and non-structural - favors the display of mono-materiality without betraying the delicacy of stereometry. Each single "eco-lodge" is characterized by a collaborative structure of coupled wooden beams, laid in a simple paratactic sequence to define the roof/facade, and the bracing made with thin steel tie rods. The coupling between the coupled beams, the metal fastening profile for the attachment to the ground and the integration of the ribbon windows above enunciate the respective characteristics of the materials by combining them in an architecture that is simple in conception and execution.

ENERGY EFFICIENCY

International Congress and Exhibition - Belgrade

Atelier LAVIT public lecture and workshop with students from the Faculty of Architecture - University of Belgrade

http://en.congress-saee.com

http://www.porlwi.com/retrospective

seating category (Lemni designed for Living Divani)

outdoor category (Hut designed for Ethimo)

https://www.archiproducts.com/en/news/living-divani-presents-the-new-2021-furniture-collection_81657

https://www.archiproducts.com/en/products/ethimo/round-accoya-wood-garden-bed-hut_452174

https://www.librairiedumoniteur.com/le-mobilier-d-architectes-1960-2020,fr,4,2000400123185.cfm

Design Centre London (2021)

http://www.maison-objet.com/download/maison-objet/Press-Releases/Jan18_MO-PARIS__Awards_RISING-TALENTS__press_en.pdf

https://aquatecture.volzero.com/

https://shop.gestalten.com/hideouts.html

http://www.eumenes.it/en/meeting-milan-at-the-senato-hotel-rooftop/

https://www.unprogetto.com/intervista-marco-lavit-nicora/

GCP wood cabins Hotel

https://www.archilovers.com/projects/225144/eco-domaine-cabanes-des-grands-cepages.html

ORIGIN tree house Hotel

https://www.archilovers.com/projects/225148/origin-tree-house.html

Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine de Paris

Atelier LAVIT was selected to showcase RECONVEXO low table (Nilufar Gallery 2017)

Through the furniture creations of the greatest names in architecture of the past sixty years, this exhibition sets out to discover how architects fit into the decorative arts with the design of furniture, objects and luminaires. .

For 150 years, architects have designed furniture and lighting to complete their constructions. Unlike the furniture of their predecessors in the Vienna Secession, Art Deco, Bauhaus or the Modern Movement, the furniture designed by architects from 1960 to the present day has rarely been studied until now.

For the first time, an exhibition is displayed throughout the entire Cité, reaching the permanent collections and the library and opens out a dialogue between the pieces and the museums's collections, revealing what makes architect furniture specific and original.

Through prototypes, single pieces, limited edition or mass productions laid out around the whole Cité, the exhibition invites visitors to discover the furniture production of architects from the 1960's to the present day.

With near 300 pieces, and more than 125 architects and nearly 90 editors represented this exhibition is an invitation to take a stroll through the Cité, discovering the furniture creations of great figures and personalities in architecutre in the last decades : David Adjaye, Ron Arad, Shigeru Ban, David Chipperfield, Odile Decq, Charles & Ray Eames, Norman Foster, Sou Fujimoto, Franck Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Marc Held, Steven Holl, Toyo Ito, Jakob + MacFarlane, Michele de Lucchi, Angelo Mangiarotti, Jean Nouvel, Verner Panton, Dominique Perrault, Gaetano Pesce, Rudy Ricciotti, Aldo Rossi, Sanaa, Superstudio, Carlo Scarpa, Ettore Sottsass, Atelier LAVIT...

https://www.citedelarchitecture.fr/en/exhibition/architects-furniture-1960-2020

Marco LAVIT exhibition at Nilufar25

(Nilufar Gallery)

The new set-up for the Nilufar25 space at @nilufargallery show case a careful selection of @atelierlavit ’s furniture pieces produced with the gallery over the last 4 years.

https://www.youngarchitectscompetitions.com/competition/tree-house-module

Hidden places stylish spaces (2019)

https://www.amazon.fr/Cabins-Escape-Images-Publishing-Group/dp/1864708336

https://livingdivani.it/en/communication/agenda/2020/lemni-paris-design-week-2020/