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NVK "Slow Design"
NVK "Slow Design" principles are based on ecological compatibility, client well-being, beauty and functional elegance.
We plan and manage projects from start to finish, working to guarantee a liveable world for future generations.
Natasha Calandrino Van Kleef published her own “Manifesto of Slow Design” in 2002, which was featured in Interni magazine. Her ethos combines local production and consumption, and fosters every phase of a localised and artisanal manufacturing process. It encourages and facilitates the reduction of wastage and pollution, especially carbon dioxide emissions, and promotes holistic and intelligent design:
- Functionality and minimisation of self-referential gadgetry- Facilitation of “ecological” choices and behaviours
- Durability and multi-purpose solutions
- Provenance and traceability from raw materials to final product
- Selection of local resources and labour
- Application of simple materials and costs reduction
- Flexible Tetris
- Sustain Chair
- Airswitch Sanitazing perfuming climate control
- La Copertina: the reading blanket
- Yin & Yang Different temperatures cover
- Silentbloom Soundproof flowerpot
- Il Porta: door, bookshelf and storage closet
- Leonardo: walk-in closet / loft bed
- Chaise Lire: Chaise longue with incorporated bookshelf
- Tetris table and container
- Fred & Wilma: combined coffee tables
- Divanosauro The blanket sofa
- La Zattera: Latex-made convertible bed
- Retavoli: recycled resin tables
- Sailing Chair
- Modellable Wall
- Servomutante
- Babele Bookshelf
- Saturno
- Targhe Tattili