Little Italy

‘Little Italy’ is a new body of work by designer Fanny Serouart, presented for the first time at Alcova. Exploring how form can carry memory, the project was initiated during her residency at Villa Albertine in New York, in collaboration with artisans from the Corning Museum of Glass. Engaging the material as both structure and gesture, the work draws on a lineage shaped by the dialogue between Murano glassmaking traditions and the American Studio Glass movement. Displaced from its traditional use and combined with leatherwork, the blown element becomes something to be held. Each piece reveals how a savoir-faire can be translated, embedded and sustained through form.