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I sit here at my laptop and think. Can I put my thoughts together? I see a blue sky, 30 degrees and humid
but this isn’t a tropic island: why is it so hot? Why does my knee ache? Is being 40 years old as fascinating
as people keep telling me? I do go on, day in and day out.
A few days ago Gianluca suggested to me, “write anything at all”.
Wait, I think something moved inside my brain.
“Write anything at all!”. It could be the right suggestion!
I shift the line of sight from the almost blank page to the passageway right outside my office.
Alberto passes by, silently. I guess he is coming back from the frame shop. The clue being the roll of
technical drawings he carries.
Elio – face mask hanging around his neck – expresses some perplexity over the colour intensity he is trying
to reach in glass. Michela insists – her hand-painted colour charts in her hands. They spar a little.
A Nastro comprising five hundred and forty glass elements has to be installed over a staircase. The guys
are leaving. “But when will the micro Nastro be ready for the market?”, Denise asks while making some
photocopies, always seeking to tip off her clients. Actually, Silvia just put down on my desk the CAD
drawings to print in the catalogue.
The testing of smaller flexible metal elements was made late spring. The development took some time.
I close the door.
My first thought: my office faces a very crowded corridor.
Second thought: what happened?
NASTRO
It took a couple of years from very first launch of Nastro into market back in year 2000 to begin to see the
process by which its actual limits could be continually formed and reformed. The more questions, the more
specific preferences, the more information our Clients submitted really fired our imagination and led us to seriously
consider what might be created and actualised in new additional forms. We started wondering about the
preferences conveyed. Were they a reflection of the preferences of individuals involved in buying Nastro? Or were
they a reflection of cultural experiences and social circumstances? Or, again, were they a reflection of the nature
of the product itself?
From our own vantage point, we guessed they were a combination of all these factors.
Nastro’s Clients we had since the very beginning – interior designers or architects or private individuals – they are
people who experienced a specific need well before the majority. That’s why they have been so important to us.
They made it necessary to develop ideas or other practical ways to deal with their needs without changing the
essence of the design.
As it often happens when looking ahead, too busy and immersed in daily activities, we did not immediately
realize that we had just started the process of design research. In fact, our Client’s feedback began to have real
meaning as our designers responded.
What caught my attention and seemed interesting to me was that the role of our in-house design team was no
longer fixed, but was actually changing. Without even being conscious we asked them to take a more pro-active
perception in the development of Nastro. And this change, – to a large extent - influenced us all.
I now have the feeling that this was the real initiation of change in the man made glass products we make.
Once the essential design is determined, then more specifics of its forms can be conceived.
We are getting better and better in expanding the content of our product to match our understanding of design.
The earlier edition has focused primarily on usability (2000), then it moved to include pleasure and emotion
(2003), and now it includes broader issues and concepts.
You only know the non-existing context where to fit a Nastro fixture. You imagine it.
This is until now our only vision.
Environment changes. It is dynamic. Interiors are subject to change by human intervention, intended or
unintended. This meant – and still means – we have to seek to reconceptualize the existing, when talking about
Nastro collection.
It is a scenario-method of working, suited to generate possible specification-in-context and practices on a different
level of sophistication.
And what is a scenario but a “what if” story”?
The majority of our customized Nastro models – linear, multiple, circular … - often begin with analysis of the
context into which Nastro design must fit.
Pause. I need a break. 5
The coffee-corner is near my office. In the passageway, of course. Where else could it be? Turn left. Turn
right. The espresso machine is where I go to gather most of my thoughts. Whatever the situation I’m facing. I
stare at the hazel brown cream trickling down turning into black-brown. Is it just a matter of knowledge? Is it
the spectrum of expertise? Well, I believe that any kind of knowledge is personal and any personal knowledge is
rendered by expertise.
I slowly sip my coffee. As I contemplate – one by one – people working downstairs, at the furnace come to my
mind and then those at the grindstone and then those men in the assembly department. I walk down and look
at them going back and forth. Down the stairs the scent is different. Expertise here is not simply a matter of
“talent”, but is the result of dedication, motivation, concentration. No romanticism, I’m sorry. But the willingness
to work hard on improving performances. Here stands the other side of the nature of human creativity. It is here
that our understanding of “experience” is translated into the “look and feel” of our product. How many hours
Gianluca and the design team spend here, transmitting a concept, attending the creation of glass prototypes,
discussing feasibility. Through Nastro we first experienced the close collaboration between human resources.
Not only drawings going up and down the stairs but a process that offers the opportunity for critical discourses,
intellectual conversations, basic fundamentals on chemistry, arguments on aesthetics …
Such collaborative dialogue had the right effect on the evolution of Nastro as a piece of art. This approach implies
a direct experimental encounter with art. So far, I’m sure you will agree with me, we might look at these glass
artworks as objects of knowledge in their own right.
Being myself in charge of marketing I know that understanding a market is fundamentally different from
understanding what to design. I need to understand what people will buy and how people make their buying
decision; the design team instead need to understand what will fit into people’s lives. I believe there is only a
limited overlap between these questions.
Better for me to have a short walk outside the factory. At the end of the lane there’s the lighthouse. As I said
this is not a tropic island but Murano still is an island. I lean on the low wall facing the lagoon. It is still 30°
degrees and humid. I rest my mind focusing on the surface of the water.
Wait a minute … w a i t a m i n u t e … I don’t know what a Nastro element looks to you but, in this very moment,
it looks like curling surf to me (but please let that be our secret!).
Marzia Vianello
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I’m particularly grateful to all the employees and
workers whose commitment and professionalism has
enabled Andromeda to achieve the results and to affect
the transformation into a professionally managed, well
diversified, international Company.
Marzia Vianello
Director of Marketing & Business Development
The past four years have confirmed to be an important
period in the history of Andromeda. Notwithstanding
the strong growth realized in the past and the difficult
economic environment, Andromeda continues its growth.
Organic growth was driven primarily by the Company’s
core business: contemporary design. In particular, the
Nastro collection continues to improve brand awareness
and an increasingly loyal customer base.
All of the Company’s collections have benefited
from management’s strategic focus on creativity;
evidenced by an extended product offering
including complimentary lines, and an increasingly
important flash products.
Also, the Company’s continued international
expansion program has been instrumental in
driving growth.
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Andromeda’s vision is to be leader in INNOVATION for the hand-made glass environment through
the KNOWLEDGE and EXPERTISE in design and production.
Our philosophy is founded on the commitment to achieve excellence, while satisfying the needs of
each Client and reaching solutions that respond to their context.
This vision is matched today by the exclusive co-operation and creativity of the world most
celebrated designers.
In our nearly thirty five years of practice we have undergone immense growth and significant
changes from classical Venetian tradition up to the extreme use of hand-made glass.
Today we are an entrepreneurial firm, flat and non-hierarchical, that emphasizes team work,
innovation and creation of real value. Andromeda today is comprised of people who steel feel the
passion and zeal of our original vision. We have organized ourselves around our Clients, and our
goal is to work effectively with them wherever they have a presence.
At Andromeda, design is not an abstract exercise in combining shapes, forms and materials.
Whatever a project’s size or budget, we are just as comfortable working with a retailer across the
street as we are enlightening an hospitality resort on the other side of the world.
The firm has conceived, designed, produced and fitted for corporate offices, banking and financial
institutions; government buildings; residential environments; leisure and hospitality industry;
public and private institutions.
The goal is to provide the highest level of quality and design for all of our Clients on each and
every project. The talents of our designers, backed by our company’s key teams give us the skill to
integrate the complex technical requirements with the more subjective aesthetic and psychological
perceptions of light.
Company’s Profile
50 St. JamesLondon ClubsLondon
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Jewellery LeichtPforzheim (Germany)
Private Bank(U.S.A.)
Private Bank(U.S.A.)
Private houseMouille Point (South Africa)
Boutique Celleno Rome (Italy)
Private Bank (U.S.A.)
Hotel Ixian Grand Rhode (Greece)
Las Dunas HotelMarbella (Spain)
Hotel Ixian GrandRhode (Greece)
I believe understanding artistic research and the role it may
play in design is one of the key challenges of our times. The
combination of both helped me discover how my Company
could actually move forward a conceptual knowledge which
would enhance our overall quality production.
The natural emphasis on authenticity and originality which
permeates Andromeda’s way of working makes Nastro
available for the cult value of non-reproducible. This means
you should try to imagine a shape, to imagine a nuance.
Gianluca Vecchi
President
I was given a great deal of freedom in interpreting,
changing and improving Nastro.
Amused and perplexed at the same time, I kept true to the
glass element designed by Afra & Tobia Scarpa of course,
though clearly defining and affirming its existence in the
spatial environment: the world.
As an artist I approached the Nastro in terms of shape first:
the quality of such an “object” depends on the constant
relations of position and proportionate distance among
all the points composing its outline. From this point of
view Nastro offered me endless compositional possibilities
depending upon my mood, imagination, sense of discovery
and theory of colour.
To this latter, I applied my study and research, being the
colour a formal property of art and a property of object,
intended as a key component in picturing space and
therefore establishing space and shape in terms others than
dimension or with no explicit references to dimension.
My goal was to create a sort of colours palette. When you
dip and coalesce a paintbrush into a colour, or in more than
one colour, something amazing happens: this gesture is the
very new dimension of an artwork.
You see, a structure may suggest a colour but a colour may
suggest a zillion of worlds. Make yourself the question:
which is the limit of a shade of blue, or of a shade of
yellow? It looks like a koan zen as there’s no answer.
Colour goes always beyond the sign. And what happens if
you run after a shade? It happens that you will probably
see a world (a structure) no one else see, no one else even
imagine but that can be realized.
Michela Vianello
Painter & Sculptor
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Creation and general coordinationDiego Lazzarini Design - Veneziainfo@diegolazzarinidesign.com
General lay-outDiego Lazzarini Design - Venezia
Contributions byPietro Menozzi
Giovanni Lazzarini
Photographs by© Diego Lazzarini 2007 - all rights reserved
Diego Lazzarini Design - Venezia
TextsMarzia VianelloGianluca VecchiMichela Vianello
PrintGrafiche Veneziane - Venezia
Printed in Venice, January 2007
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without permission in writing of copyright holders.
All the products of “Nasto” Collection are registered products of Andromeda International S.r.l.
NASTRO
DesignAfra & Tobia Scarpa
Artistic implementationMichela Vianello
Technical developmentAlberto FurtakSilvia Mormiro
Special thanks to50 Saint James’ – London Clubs
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