Milano Design Week 2025
Giorgio Caporaso and PEFC Italia present "Geometric Essences": sustainable design and innovation
SUPERSTUDIO - Yellow Room by Food Design Stories | Via Tortona 27, Milan | April 6-13, 2025, from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Casa Tabu | Via Melone 2, Milan | April 7-12, from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Essenze Geometriche is a project by Giorgio Caporaso in collaboration with PEFC Italia, created to convey a new idea of ​​beauty: essential, circular, and conscious.
Dots, Lines, Rings, and Surfaces transform PEFC-certified wood and recycled materials into objects capable of inspiring, evolving, and giving new life to the material.
With the contribution of Panguaneta and TABU, the Italian wood supply chain becomes the protagonist of a story that combines design, responsibility, and a vision of the future.

The project is part of the pursuit of sustainable design and the circular economy and was created with the goal of enhancing materials and reducing waste. The collection combines wood from PEFC-certified forests with processing waste, recovered and transformed into new design elements.

The "Essenze Geometriche" capsule collection is part of the "Forests Are Home" campaign, promoted internationally by PEFC to promote certified forests as vital ecosystems and sources of legal and sustainable raw materials. The campaign also encourages designers and companies in the sector to create works and furnishings using certified raw materials (wood primarily, but also cellulose materials such as paper, cardboard, textile fibres, etc.).

Objects designed to evolve over time
Each piece of "Essenze Geometriche" demonstrates the ability to combine tradition and innovation through design, respecting the environment and promoting local supply chains. Crafted from domestic wood species and finished with simple and efficient processes to reduce energy consumption, they pay homage to the beauty and versatility of wood, a sustainable, renewable, biodegradable, and moldable material.
One of the distinctive elements of Essenze Geometriche is its circular design. The objects are designed to be transformable, renewable, and disassembled at the end of their life, thus fostering the possibilities of reuse, recovery, and recycling.

Dots - Dots are fundamental in art and geometry. When combined, they create shapes and meanings; here they represent the sun's rays, the source of life. Recycled or certified wood forms a modular, stackable, and transformable object, enriched with dots that vary in texture and color, making it a useful flat container.
Rings - Recalls the concentric circles that, in tree trunks, indicate the lifespan of plants. It evokes Saturn's rings, radio waves, or the circles created by stones thrown into water, as well as childhood games. A dynamic object that evolves with colors and finishes, always arousing emotion.
Lines - A triangular box holds colorful wooden slats, symbolizing nature and the diversity of the plant kingdom. The triangle, linked to the number Three, represents humanity, the earth, and nature. The slats, a metaphor for a solid and lush trunk, offer a playful and interactive experience: they can be inserted, removed, and modified, evoking the continuous transformation of nature.
Surfaces - Tree crowns form fascinating plant surfaces, visible from below or above. Forests and woodlands, essential to life, collect light and activate photosynthesis. Using wood from PEFC-certified forests promotes their survival. This metaphor inspires Surfaces, a pyramid-shaped object with modifiable and tactile wooden surfaces.

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