Does Minotti believe innovation is disruption? It was a simple yet layered question I’d posed to Alessandro and Susanna Minotti, the third-generation legacy holders of the Italian furniture design brand which originally started as a small-scale artisan workshop in a quaint town in Italy by Alberto Minotti. When I met them at Minotti’s novel showroom in Bengaluru recently, the agenda was definite; to celebrate the venue’s one year milestone and experience the languid tactility of Minotti’s classics and the newest furniture pieces. “For us innovation has rarely meant disruption in the sense of breaking with what came before. In design, as in culture, evolution often happens through continuity rather than rupture. At Minotti, the language has developed over time: adjusting proportions, materials and atmospheres, so that each collection naturally extends the one before it,” stated Alessandro.
On a rather balmy day, the white-clad and glass-draped facade of the showroom envisioned in collaboration with Amber Home Interiors hinted at what lay inside. Spanning two floors, the sight first met a lean perch: the 1970s-inspired Libra armchair by Giampiero Tagliaferri. In the living area, rested a snug Bézier seating by Marcio Kogan of Studio MK27, which the duo described as an infinitely combinable system.
The space also orchestrated a master bedroom with a seemingly light-in-demeanour Yves bed and an intimate lounge designed by Hannes Peer. Soon, indoors transitioned into outdoors, where pieces mimicked an open-air living style. Throughout, colours mirrored a couture-esque temper to the furniture. Susanna explained, “Rather than thinking of isolated products, each collection is conceived as a coordinated environment where furniture, materials and spatial composition contribute to a coherent idea of contemporary living.”
"At Minotti, the language has developed over time: adjusting proportions, materials and atmospheres, so that each collection naturally extends the one before it”
