Formafantasma furniture interrogates "gendered nature" of modernism

Design duo Formafantasma paired harsh steel rods with delicate glass flowers in its La Casa Dentro furniture collection, comparing modernism's sobriety with the "femininity" of more decorative motifs.

Creative and life partners Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin made the furniture to "address the canons of modernism" – an early 20th-century movement favouring functional, pared-back design over 19th-century ornamentation.

For the collection...