Postcard Furniture: Belvedere by Luca De Bona and Massimiliano Tuveri.

From Venice to Milan, Florence, Rome and Naples, the new collaborative project from designer Luca De Bona and photographer Massimiliano Tuveri features a collection of furnishings inspired by the Italian cities of the Grand Tour, reinterpreted through the lens of a contemporary vedutismo.

An architectural journey between the historic and the present. An imaginary path through which to immerse oneself in the atmosphere of the cities, while rediscovering the emotional qualities of furnishings. Inspired by the idea of a vedutismo, Belvedere was created through the desire of its two founders to update the concept of the applied arts, combining design and photography.

The result is a collection of furniture and accessories that feature contemporary pastiches and views of the most important Italian cities carved in the surface — a sometimes bizarre, but always loving, homage to the “Bel Paese”.

Inaugurated at EDIT Napoli 2021, the debut collection is made up of a series of monochromatic pieces that bear views of the main Italian cities taken in on the Grand Tour — Venice takes concrete shape in a cabinet, Milan in a divider, Florence in a console table with the function of a dressing table, Rome a bar, and Naples a cupboard.

Related: Highlights from EDIT Napoli 2021.

The artwork collage by photographer Massimiliano Tuveri, developed in collaboration with VZNstudio, as seen on the Belvedere collection.

[Images courtesy of Luca De Bona and Massimiliano Tuveri. Photography by Serena Eller.]