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Studio Ossidiana www.studio-ossidiana.com

Paper Gardens

By 04-12-2020

Paper Gardens is a project for Villa Necchi Campiglio (Milan) and its garden, designed by Studio Ossidiana for the New York Times’ Style Maga­zine. The paths of the garden are dotted by different installations related to horticulture, farming, and hospitality.

Studio Ossidiana: “As you enter the grounds, three silhouettes – between hedges and distant hills – become the temporary facade of villa Necchi Campiglio. Holes and clearings between the walls open up to elements of the villa and the gar­den, while heaps of different soils (mulch, sand, compost, sphagnum, gravel) appear through small openings and emerge as peaks between the walls.”

“Within a pink raised pavilion, tulips, irises, snowdrops, allium, dandelions, canola, cornflowers await the visitor, staging the world of agricultural, ornamental, and spontaneous plants, and of their botanical and cultural intersec­tions. The pavilion, from the outside, looks like an elevated crown or a huge skirt, only revealing the legs of people within – a sort of human-flower chimera.”

“The promenade ends with a reinterpretation of the piñata: a rock garden of expressive architectural-mineral elements, reflecting the theme of the pavilions, and echoing the villa’s many spatial and orna­mental inventions.”