Through Authors of Matter, Visionnaire explores the most intimate moment of design: the instant before an idea becomes an object, when it still exists as intuition, atmosphere, fragment. Developed within the narrative of Rare Matter, the collection presented at Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026, the project gives voice to the designers who shaped some of its most emblematic pieces.
Authors of Matter unfolds through the perspectives of Alessandro La Spada, Mauro Lipparini and Marc Ange, tracing three distinct design sensibilities. With Joker sofa, Alessandro La Spada starts from a primary gesture that gives rise to a fluid, enveloping form, where softness becomes sculptural presence. Through Bloomington armchair, Mauro Lipparini interprets matter as a plastic blossoming, suspended between volume, balance and natural memory. With Macrodosing table, Marc Ange explores an enigmatic, almost ritual dimension of matter, shaped by rhythm, perception and symbolic tension. Three autonomous yet complementary visions, united by an initial intuition: that invisible gesture in which thought meets matter and begins to take form.
Alessandro La Spada
Joker sofa
For Alessandro La Spada, matter takes on a compact, radical and almost instinctive presence. Joker is conceived as a volume to inhabit: full, sculptural, crossed by cuts and openings that turn light into an active part of the project.
The sofa does not interpret softness as decoration, but as mass, density and domestic architecture. Its proportions express a primary strength, while the luminous incisions interrupt the solidity of the form, revealing an inner tension. Joker becomes a physical and sensorial presence — an object that does not simply occupy space, but gives it direction.
Mauro Lipparini
Bloomington armchair
For Mauro Lipparini, the creative gesture unfolds like a restrained blooming. Bloomington translates the image of the calla lily into a sculptural and reflective form, where the delicacy of the natural reference meets a precise, solid, almost architectural structure.
The armchair does not imitate the flower; it preserves its spatial memory, its movement of opening, its balance between protection and lightness. Reflective surfaces capture the light, curves introduce a soft tension, and asymmetry breaks the stillness of the traditional seat. Bloomington appears as a silent organism: elegant, alive, suspended between nature and architecture.
Marc Ange
Macrodosing table
In Marc Ange’s world, form begins with ambiguity: something familiar yet mysterious, natural yet visionary, delicate yet powerful. Macrodosing becomes a figure suspended between organic memory and architectural presence.
The reference to the mushroom is never literal; it is absorbed, enlarged and transformed into a monumental structure where rhythm, shadow and verticality create an enigmatic image. Matter seems to hold a dual nature — seductive and unsettling, protective and intense — giving life to an object that resists immediate interpretation and invites a closer, slower gaze.