Fauandflo is a modern collection of decor objects where the animal reign meets the botanical one. The project was born as a form of divertissement after various conversations between Andrea Crescente, interior designer, and Alfredo Chiaramonte, designer.
“Visiting my clients’ houses during the years I noticed that we tend to choose vases and small plants more and more to decorate our interiors. So why not create functional and nice objects to keep company to our frames, books, and personal belongings?”
– Andrea Crescente
A naif collection made out of a burst of creativity, after a phase of sketching and rendering. Alfredo, here in the first row, handmade the first prototypes that were used by designers to create the molds, which were then given to the ceramists of the Vicentino District in Nove to start a small-scale production.
“One day Alfredo came to see me and I suggested he think about a line of small original vases and he came to me rather quickly after a few days, with these drawings that had me pretty enthusiastic. We immediately thought about producing them in the motherland of pottery, in Nove. Logo and name were just a natural consequence of the objects, the fauna serving the flora: this is how we came up with FAUANDFLO”.
-Andrea Crescente
FAUANDFLO can fit anywhere because they are small, beautiful, colorful and for these reasons they allow us to always have a flower or a small plant in front of our eyes.
ANDREA CRESCENTE AND ALFREDO CHIARAMONTE’S ENCOUNTER
Crescente Interni is an historical activity that, since 1939, deals with interior designing both for domestic and professional settings. In 1994, Andrea Crescente found out how engaging this activity could be, as it significantly impacts people’s life through the disposition, function and aesthetic of designs.
Andrea explores new horizons through the elaboration of ideas to be transformed into projects. This is how the “Croissant Design” blog, the physical and digital place “Progetto Chorus”, the editorial project “Mr. C and the Monocles” and with Alfredo Chiaramonte the pottery creatures “FAUANDFLO”, were born.
“Alfredo and I are in perfect balance with the almost childish desire to surprise and enchant through the sketch to be transformed in a concrete shape, and this is how FAUANDFLO was born”.
Alfredo Chiaramonte has been a designer for 30 years in the furniture and lighting fields. Two are the passions that pushed him in this direction: the one for “objects” on one side and for drawings on the other. His aspiration was to become a cartoonist, a dream which partially became true when he collabored with satirical newspapaers and did illustrations for Cuore, Il Manifesto and La Stampa.
He still is more of a designer rather than someone who only deals with graphics, even though 3D digital techniques, Alfredo tells us, have taken away some of the magic of manual drawing and of the manual realisation of a prototype. Fauandflo in this sense is a break from those functionally aesthetic schemes that are now too rigid.
“Working with my hands has always given me a sense of fullfilment, and drawing does somthing similar to me.” With Inside Venice we are proud to enrich your virtual shop with Venetian creators, promoters of beauty.”
F. M.
