During Design Miami Paris, Locatelli Partners unveiled one of the most poetic and unexpected projects at the fair: Nullus Locus, an installation that turns the very idea of decoration on its head. Curated by Massimiliano Locatelli, Fabio Zambernardi, and Graziano Ricami, and presented by Salon 94 Design, the collection emerges from the intersection of architecture, craftsmanship, and experimentation, marking a new chapter in the journey of embroidery — here leaving fabric behind to explore wood.

The work originates from an unprecedented technique developed by Graziano Giordani, master of the Ascoli-based company Graziano Ricami: fine metallic threads stitched onto sheets of light American maple, transforming them into three-dimensional surfaces that capture light like engravings. The result is a living material, where decoration is no longer an ornament but an architectural language.

In Paris, at 74 rue de l’Université, Locatelli’s “non-place” becomes a domestic landscape of suspended elegance: wall panels that unfold into reliefs, parquet floors traversed by geometric patterns, furniture that seems to breathe thanks to the metallic thread’s weave. “Embroidering the impossible,” say the creators, “is a way to bring imperfection into the material.” It is precisely in this delicate tension between rigor and lightness that Nullus Locus finds its magic: an exercise in style that speaks the ancient language of gesture, yet with a contemporary accent.