New Pieces from the master of gesture, Mattia Bonetti. The Paris-based designer Mattia Bonetti doesn’t create collections of work. Instead, he dreams up individual pieces which emerge fully-formed from his fantastical mind and onto the pages of his sketch book. From there, they are translated directly from free-hand drawing into a three-dimensional reality, with no loss of the original idea.   

What does unite Bonetti’s work, however, is a highly evolved language that he has developed over four decades, and which is derived from the baroque and rococo decorative arts traditions of France and its surrealist legacy: it is fluid and feminine; light, sensual and sculptural. His use of materials leans to the luxurious; cast bronze, marble, Murano glass, gilt, rock crystal, gloriously dyed lambskin and rich velvet. Trained as a textile designer, Bonetti attributes the softness and hand-crafted nature of his work precisely to a lack of industrial design training, as well as his process of free-hand drawing.