Out of Curiosity

2021

Talva Design

Out of Curiosity is a declination of a Cabinet de Curiosités, which originally referred to a furniture piece used for classifying stones, insects, archaeology or relics of works of art often used as a decorative element by the aristocracy. It was first mentioned in 1599 in Naples. I have always been fascinated by the graphic vivacity of those environments created by the rhythm of insects repeated in variations of colour and shape. I imagined an abstraction, a graphic interpretation of a cabinet which would fit into an architectural environment characterised by soft atmospheres. I then developed rounded geometric shapes in a play of colour contrasts - all complemented by overlapping fabric textures. Tal Waldman