Lai, architect and set designer, wanted to explore the idea of a door as a subtle boundary between distinct spaces, delving into the experiential and emotional sphere of opening and passage. Glass, with its transparency and capacity to create different shapes and reflections, perfectly lends itself to this concept, conveying a sensation of lightness and suspension.

The exhibition path is designed as an illusion of sorts, split into two complementary stages. On the ground floor, a tight sequence of light stopsol sheets helps create an accelerated perspective, emphasised by bright accents. On the upper floor, the theme of the portal is expressed through the development of a 4-metre high totemic artistic element.

Abstract forms and colours are created by the play of reflections and projections on the glass and mirrors, where the skilfully applied light creates a seductive and surreal atmosphere that seems to defy the laws of physics and the plane of reality.

The space invites visitors to explore the infinite possibilities of glass and to experiment with its perception.
The result is a unique experience: a space where architectural objects and elements blend and multiply in the light, creating suggestions.

The installation becomes much more than a visual experience, encouraging visitors to reflect on the relationship between space and matter and art’s ability to open up new horizons of thought.

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The stand was the product of a long-standing partnership with Piero Lissoni, designed to showcase the expressive potential of Lualdi’s systems.
The products recreated a homelike atmosphere, defining the entrance, living area and home office. Four intimate boxes, like matryoshka dolls in which visitors can explore the great variety and versatility of the company’s products.

The company explores the potential of aluminium and glass, not only through the study of patterns and decorations that embellish and renew the product’s identity, but also by concentrating its industrial investments in a new production pole dedicated to glass-working that will sit alongside the historical plant in Marcallo con Casone.

The quest to discover wood’s untapped potential is ongoing, yielding solutions that inject furniture systems with energy, transforming them into flexible, cutting-edge architectural elements with a high decorative impact. Intricate carvings and graphic combinations of lines and shadows breathe fresh life into wood’s inherent solidity.

Lualdi also deepens the dialogue with fabrics and leathers, materials that increasingly define a reconciliation, a fusion almost, between the product and the world of furniture. These materials are used to demonstrate increasingly adaptable solutions capable of defining the visual style of the spaces they link.

All the new finishes play with light from technically different perspectives, opening up to a wide range of creative possibilities, from surface processing to overlapping patterns and the combination of different materials.

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The reasons for the award are the project’s expressive and interpretative potential: the collection is designed to go beyond the stark minimalism of traditional flush-with-wall doors.

The metal profile framing the door adds aesthetic value, further emphasising the door’s symbolic value as a means of crossing, passage, and connection, without the door disappearing into the wall. The decorative aspect thus emerges from the wall, highlighting the symbolic meaning of crossing and passage.

“Altaj is a product of the desire to combine the simplicity of forms with technological research and performance”, explains architect Giuseppe Blengini. “Taking this object’s capacity for expression and customisation to the extreme.”

Altaj is distinguished by its unusually slim frame: a linear graphic form that projects the door forward by at least 1.5 cm, lending three-dimensionality to the object and surroundings. Altaj stands out even with the door open, due to its symmetrical frame and lack of contact.

Precisely because it is so light, Altaj can easily be customised with a wide variety of materials such as wood, stoneware, leather and wallpaper to create distinctive visual effects and serve as the room’s focal point thanks to its singular and original design.

The attention to detail and expressiveness of Lualdi’s designs speak to the architect, becoming a key element in determining the style and atmosphere of the setting.