Kìri is an industrial design object that blends aesthetics, sustainability, and visual suggestion. The project originates from the concept of emerging lands: surfaces that move, divide, and transform. The incense holder, created in collaboration with Keep Life, utilizes an innovative material made from nutshell waste, demonstrating how design can give new life to what would otherwise be discarded. The backflow system guides the smoke downward, creating the illusion of mist, sea, and clouds: ever-changing landscapes, impossible to replicate, in constant transformation.
Keep Life x Salone del mobile
Product Design
Product Design
The challenge was to transform a material with strong sustainable value into an iconic and poetic object. The project aimed to convey the dynamism of the earth while also creating a sensory experience through the flow of incense smoke.
I began with a careful observation of fractured and irregular land morphologies, translating them into a sculptural form that could embrace the movement of smoke. The choice of the backflow system was not only aesthetic but also conceptual: the slow, fluid descent recalls the natural movements of fog weaving through the reliefs.
Kìri is an object that invites contemplation: every use is different from the last, every smoke trail a new landscape. A product that merges material innovation, formal research, and an unprecedented visual and sensory experience, presented at Fuorisalone as an example of sustainable and narrative design.
