Butterfly Effect: Muuto and H+O’s Immersive Exhibition in Milan.

For this year’s Milan Design Week, Muuto joined forces with Josephine Akvama Hoffmeyer and Elisa Ossino of H+O to create an immersive exhibition across their apartment gallery at Via Solferino 11 in Brera. Sharing a distinct passion for colour, form and tactility they investigated how these impact our perception of a space and how it affects us.

The 18th-century apartment gallery was transformed into a sensory environment that reflects human emotions while delicately framing them in scenarios of everyday life. The exhibition was a physical manifestation of the profound effect seemingly small changes in our immediate environment can have on everyday life and a person’s sense of well-being. Embodied by the rounded curves of a chair, the deep hue of a bedroom wall or the warm materiality of a wooden tabletop, this idea is folded out across the familiarity of a home.

“Today more than ever, it is important to carefully choose the things, we surround ourselves with and examine the process that goes into them. The quality of an object has the potential to improve our well-being and even create a platform for socialising,” explains Elisa Ossino. “Elements like a sculptural chair that combines the useful with the beautiful, a steam oven that prepares healthy food, or the use of colours in our homes can improve our states of mind.”

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Using furniture, lighting, and accessories by Muuto, the space investigates the impact that elements like colours, texture and shapes can have on our lives. While swiss appliances brand V-ZUG offered a sensory experience in the kitchen. Throughout the apartment gallery, video artists Stefano Roveda and Alessandro Gagliardo present a reworked body of sequences from cult movies with a colourful tint—suggesting how a series of small actions are linked to consequences of pleasure, celebration, or even melancholy.

“We are bound together by our aim to develop and refine our efforts to create meaningful spaces in which life can unfold,” Josephine Akavama Hoffmeyer continues. “Sustainability, technology, design and craftsmanship are all brought together to collaboratively create an impact on the most essential elements of everyday life.”

Muuto launched two new designs in the H+O apartment—the generous Midst Table, designed by Swedish duo TAF Studio, a refined, round dining table. and a new take on Thomas Bentzen’s 2012 Mingle Cushions in new contrasting colours and textures.

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