Mesh by Fiorella Fasciati
The designer Fiorella Fasciati is one of those creative forces who rarely appear publicly even within the small design scene, yet whose influence on design development and the product world is often much greater than that of some short-lived stars, who of course also exist in this field. Her quiet and modest demeanor is, of course, contrasted by a tenacious persistence in her work, which fits well with her origin. Fasciati comes from Bergell, the southernmost, remote corner of the canton of Graubünden. More precisely from the village of Stampa, which became widely known beyond the borders of Graubünden and Switzerland through Alberto Giacometti and his family.
The Giacomettis were neighbors of the Fasciatis, and although this is naturally no more than a biographical coincidence, the example of the Giacomettis—who made a name for themselves as artists, graphic designers, and architects—may have shown the young Fiorella Fasciati early on that there is a world to discover beyond Bergell and that working in design can also become a profession there. Her own path began for very practical reasons with training as a primary school teacher in Chur. In 1977, she moved to Basel, where she took evening courses at the School of Design alongside her teaching job. There she soon completed the four-year training to become a textile designer. After her diploma, which already focused on the topic of rugs, she engaged Peter Ruckstuhl—who at that time had just taken over the management of the family business—in 1984 as the company’s first in-house designer. Fasciati worked on colour schemes, developed simple samples, advocated for the production of the first custom-sized rugs, and designed the company’s appearances. In 1990, she moved to the Swiss textile publisher Mira-X, where she worked for seven years as a product manager. Her responsibilities there also included managing larger projects and compiling colour ranges. Since 1997, the mother of three has been working as an independent designer. Increasingly, her work has focused on colour. Her goal is a contemporary colour scheme that does not blindly follow trend information but reveals its own signature. A high standard that can only be convincingly fulfilled with very fine antennas for the constantly changing colour perception and a clear personal standpoint. Today, Fasciati advises various textile manufacturers in Switzerland on colour schemes and collection development. She has also been in professional contact with Ruckstuhl again since 2005. In 1998, she took on her first teaching assignments at the School of Design in Basel. In 2001, she was commissioned to establish and lead a two-year continuing education class for textile design there.
For the rugs Area and Mesh, which were created as part of the Edition Ruckstuhl, Fasciati deliberately drew on a manufacturing technology commonly used at Ruckstuhl, whose design potential was to be explored in a new way. The decision for hand-tufting naturally suggested making the structure of the rug the central design theme. The designs, characterized by an interplay of inclusion and exclusion, are not only visually perceptible. Because the use of a pile of varying lengths, which becomes the main carrier of the sample, gives the rugs a three-dimensional structure and also makes them a tactile floor experience.
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Material
pure virgin wool
Technologie
hand-tufted
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