ROSSANA ORLANDI
VIA MATTEO BANDELLO, 14/16, 20123 MILANO MI, ITALY
MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2019
Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Milan Design Week 2019 - Cascadia, the latest addition to Matthew McCormick’s collection, will make its global debut during Milan Design Week 2019 at Spazio Rossana Orlandi, April 9-14.
A homage to nature and its effortless beauty, Cascadia pendant takes its name from the Canadian Cascade mountains. Inspired by British Columbia’s white-capped mountain range and organic flow of waterways that carve down the province’s west coast, the aim was to elevate the distinctive glow of his artisanal, hand-created glass tubing and design a new modular pendant system of infinite permutations, highlighting an aesthetic of simplicity.
Cascadia is an expansion of the technique used to create his popular Dawn chandelier, re-imagined through its custom-made LED tubing and the beautiful, opaline glow it emits.
“The magic of Cascadia is in the pureness of its design and the ethereal glow from the bulbs themselves. They are hiding a mechanism that is part technical and part magic. We’ve been able to create the perfect gradation of light through the creation of this bulb, which is part of the mystique behind our Dawn chandelier. It made perfect sense to take the elegance of the light it emits and maximize its effect through the Cascadia pendant.”
Distinguished by their slender shape and the soft gradation of light from its hand-made, artisan glass tubing, Cascadia pendants are articulated and finished by its hand-polished metal fitting. The soft glow of the pendant is achieved through an opaline LED hue, balanced by the more industrial look of the metallic accents. Whether hanging alone as a delicate fixture over a bedside table, undulating over a dining table, or cascading down a grand stairwell in a showering effect, the technical precision of Cascadia cohesively translates into a piece that is both contemporary and timeless.
“Cascadia emerged through extracting the best ideas and techniques from our product pipeline and honing into our desire to constantly be iterating, thus creating new pieces that can appeal to any space or aesthetic,” says McCormick. “As a designer, I believe that we are always experimenting with curiosity, finding new and better ways to manipulate material, componentry, and techniques – thus allowing for the discovery of new approaches to design as you go. I felt that the artisanship in the bulbs created for our Dawn fixture needed to evolve and elevate into a piece that hyperbolized the beauty in their simplicity, which far exceeded our expectations in the launch of Cascadia.”
ABOUT GALLERIA ROSSANA ORLANDI
Gallery Rossana Orlandi opened in 2002 at a former tie factory in the Magenta neighbourhood. Galleria Rossana Orlandi is known for forecasting new and upcoming designers and has been established as one of the most revered platforms for avant-garde design and lifestyle. Rossana started her work focusing on the rising Dutch design wave with designers including Piet Hein Eek, Maarten Baa,s and Nacho Carbonell. Since then, her reach has moved widely worldwide, creating a catalog that reflects the most innovative design scenes from Europe to Asia to the Americas. The space is articulated non-traditionally: part showroom, part retail store, part offices, and a courtyard for events – all together in a way that meets no boundaries.