Valcucine Wunderkammer: a special stop in Pordenone on its international journey
The Valcucine Wunderkammer journey continues and, for the first time, makes a stop in Pordenone, at the headquarters where ideas, projects and innovation take shape every day. A special event featuring the architects and interior designers of Valcucine Cape Town | The Excellence Group, who were guests in Italy for a training and in-depth exploration dedicated to the brand's design culture.
Unlike the previous international stops, hosted in Valcucine showrooms around the world, this edition offered participants the opportunity to experience it directly within the company, coming into contact with the places, people and processes that bring its products and values to life.
The journey guided the guests in discovering the brand's founding values, ergonomic design and the possibilities of customization, a central element of the Valcucine offering. A customization that finds one of its most representative expressions in the Vitrum Arte technique.
Vitrum Arte: the wonder of making
As in every stop of Valcucine Wunderkammer, the most engaging moment of the event was the workshop dedicated to Vitrum Arte. Guests were invited to interpret one of the three proposed themes through an original drawing: wonder, luxury and freedom. Three key words from the Valcucine universe that gave rise to personal interpretations and different sensibilities.
The drawings created will be transformed by Valcucine artisans into Vitrum Arte works: hand-crafted glass inlays that will return to their authors as a tangible testimony of the experience they lived.
Discovering the Vitrum Arte workshop
What made this stop even more special was the opportunity to visit the workshop where Vitrum Arte is created. Guests were able to observe the artisanal work and the processes that transform a drawing into a glass inlay up close, entering the heart of a technique that combines precision, expertise and manual sensitivity.
A Wunderkammer that continues to grow
The experience does not end with the workshop. The works created in Pordenone will in fact enter the final competition together with those produced during the previous Valcucine Wunderkammer stops in India, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States. An increasingly rich collection of visions and interpretations that will give life to a shared Wunderkammer, capable of telling stories of cultures, sensibilities and different ways of imagining concepts such as wonder, luxury and freedom.
Stay tuned to discover the next stops.
Thank you to the architects and interior designers from Cape Town who took part in this experience, helping to enrich the Wunderkammer with new visions and sensibilities:
Thank you to the architects and interior designers from Cape Town who took part in this experience, helping to enrich the Wunderkammer with new visions and sensibilities: Nicole Currer, Co-Founder of Terra; Andrew Payne, Founder + Managing Director of Drew Architects; Giovanni Pivetta, Design Director of Peerutin Karol; Michele Rhoda, Principal of ARRCC; Ariane Bissict, Interior Designer at ARRCC; Danny Bester, Junior Associate and Professional Architect at SAOTA; Riaan Steenkamp, Associate and Professional Architect at SAOTA; Christian Cook, Senior Staff and Professional Architect at SAOTA; Alex Coetzee, Architectural Staff and Professional Architect at SAOTA; Savanna Siani, Lead Designer at Tristan Du Plessis Studio; Christian Browne, Founder & Owner of Fox Browne Creative; Celine Williams-Wynne of Artichoke; Sonia De Wet of The Excellence Group; Yolanda Le Roux of The Excellence Group; Mathilda Venter of The Excellence Group; Richard of The Excellence Group; Christian Luijk of The Excellence Group; Cacheryl Fenner of The Excellence Group; Sherri Chipps of The Excellence Group; and Jedithan Terpstra Ramsden of The Excellence Group.
