Designer Gionato Gatto’s assortment, Coloniae, is a sequence of objects designed like dwellings inside a colony, their constructions conceived to work together symbiotically with vegetation.
The objects are in all probability finest fitted to air vegetation (Tillandsia) as they don’t seem to comprise vessels for both soil or water, however the thought is noteworthy.
A set of variously formed vases and a desk, Colonaie hosts the vegetation, permitting the plant roots and leaves to intertwine themselves with the assist construction to grow to be a single full unit. The desk is paying homage to French designer Frédéric Malphettes’s Floor which does double obligation as each an indoor-outdoor modular desk system and a planter, or Norwegian designer Philipp von Hase’s seed formed “Plantable” a desk with an built-in planter.
Unveiled at Milan Design Week 2022, Colonaie is a part of the design collective JCP Universe’s Different Lifeforms sequence, whose idea is