Natasha Calandrino Van Kleef
Respect for environmental sustainability and well-being is the guiding motif of the conduct of NVK's entire business. From architecture to design, the brand's field of choice, to fashion.
Awareness of the need to operate according to the principle of sustainability in order to be able to guarantee a livable world for future generations - albeit within the limits of the “profession” of an architect - led to the formulation of a code of rules for design written with architects Marco Tronci, Laura Maria Vignati and others, collected in the Slowdesign Manifesto, published the text in Interni in 2002. Slowdesign promotes the coming together of local consumption and production, favoring the use of local raw materials and labor during all stages of a product's manufacture. The fight against waste and the containment of pollutants, especially CO2, takes place through a plurality of concepts to be kept in mind when exercising the design profession, in particular the Manifesto's cornerstones are:
Saturno
It is called “Saturn” and is a device for inactivating pathogens using UV-C lamps and fans, designed for indoor environments from schools to public and private offices, Patented with INAF.
Watersave Brush
The purpose of the device, which consists of a brush with a dosing reservoir, is to solve multiple needs: on the one hand, hygiene and hair care independently even in conditions of reduced motor skills, and on the other hand, the need to save water or to wash hair in the event of a shortage or total absence of water.
Kushim Caring Design
A few days after the Covid-19 outbreak, it became clear that the mode of transmission of the virus is through droplets, either in droplets or aerosols, and that therefore living together in confined indoor environments is the main cause of infection of the disease.
Sandbrick System
The aspiration to create a sustainable, easily organized and self-assembling construction method-particularly in situations where reliable and robust shelters need to be installed quickly.
La Copertina
The first and original “reading garment” designed by Archimuse & Partrners according to the SlowDesign philosophy and produced by the Lanerossi brand of the Marzotto Group.
Flexible Tetris
Flexible Tetris is bookcase and partition wall, and transforms the concept of “modular” into play and functional art.
Yin & Yang
The concept Yin, the feminine, and Yang, the masculine, becomes a design for dressing the couple's bed while respecting diversity.
Sustain chair
Above or below? Empty or full? Seat or storage? The Sustain Chair is all of these things: a uniquely designed piece of furniture that transforms into a document holder, simply by inserting a concealed compartment in the support base.
T-Able
The project was created to solve the problem of being able to eat and drink at the same time when enjoying an aperitif while standing.
NVK Daydoll
Established in 2010 NVK DAYDOLL is an ethical and sustainable collection made exclusively from LENZING's TENCEL ™ - Modal fabric, a fiber of plant origin derived primarily from beech pulp from responsibly managed forests in northern Europe.
Tracing You
Last 2012 saw the birth of the “Tracing you” collection, which consists of scented jewelry, specifically earrings formed from small bronze cages whose weaves contain a perfume tablet with SFR technology.
Modellable Wall
The need to create spaces and architecture with a new freedom of expression, but with the use of traditional materials such as perforated bricks. A new technique that allows the creation of horizontal and vertical planes that merge into complex shapes that can be shaped according to one's sensitivity.
Servomutante
A multifunctional object that, depending on needs or tastes, takes on different guises, while always maintaining its functions as an LED lamp, wardrobe or coat rack, and room perfumer.
Il Porta
The Porta provides an innovative locking system that adds other uses to the classic function of closing rooms.
Airswitch
Innovative sanitizing and scenting system with patented solid scent diffusion technology developed for Mitsubishi for air conditioning in homes, offices, and any environment with air handling equipment.
Sailing Chair
From an archetypal idea of a chair it was imagined to sew a dress onto the structure, using discarded sails that return to a new use. A pleasing battery of colorful and durable sails, which fit the structure well in a different way each time, for chairs ready for use both indoors and outdoors.
Silentbloom
At a time when the perception of the environment is affected by the hectic pace of work and cities, the need to transform one's home or workplace into a place of relaxation and acoustic well-being becomes predominant.
LecugiNe
From the meeting of two worlds of architecture and design comes the brand LecugiNe Design, which develops a new design code starting from the living space.
Genesi
An ancestral symbol and a universal sign, the double helix decorates the line of highly evocative designer valuables.
