Past Forward: Echoes in the Wunderkammer

 During Milano Design Week, Visionnaire shifts attention from spectacle to perception, transforming its showroom at Piazza Cavour 3 into an immersive listening environment. The Wunderkammer, once conceived as a cabinet of curiosities, becomes less a display than an atmosphere where memory, sound, and design linger in suspension.

Inspired by 1970s listening rooms, the installation encourages visitors to remain rather than circulate. Sound, shaped through a bespoke system by Giorgio Di Salvo, acts as the room’s defining architectural element, sharpening texture, resonance, and spatial awareness until listening itself becomes experiential.

Under the theme Déjà-vu, Visionnaire revisits its archive through the return of Bachi, the iconic 1970s armchair originally designed by IPE. Faithfully reissued, its enveloping form feels timeless rather than nostalgic. Alongside it, contemporary pieces including the Dorinda console, Shard coffee table, and Floro lamps create a seamless dialogue between past and present, continuity and reinvention. Together, the pieces resist fixed chronology, proposing design as an evolving language shaped through recurrence.