New design trends of 2023
2023 will see the consolidation of trends already underway in past years, thus maintaining a continuity of message. Minimalism, in its most essential form, is giving way to softer and warmer lines. Some of the most popular interior design trends for 2023 include the return of bold colours, surfaces in natural materials
UNICA, EMILIANO TOSO AND MUSIC AT 432HZ
Music is inevitable. Like a destiny, a light, a hug. Music is everywhere. In the pelting rain, in the blowing wind and sometimes, just being in silence. Music owes its name to the Greek word mousiké which means “the art of the muses”. For the ancient peoples, it was considered the
UNICA AND THE TRUTH ABOUT WINE
October is the last month of the late grape harvest, the last call for transforming those thin vines loaded with grapes, the lascivious velvet as the poet Pablo Neruda defined wine. In autumn, vineyards, filled with colours and scents amidst the rows, attract everyone, workers, relatives and friends, for a collective
2022 New York Design Award
On October 14th, 2022, our table Vento del Deserto has been awarded in the 2022 New York Design Award.Design and feelings on a journey towards nature. The inclination to capture beauty, often requires patient experience gained waiting for the right moment, other times it requires resourcefulness and research. It depends on
BAROCCO & NEOBAROCCO
Starting from Thursday September 15th, visitors to Barocco&Neobarocco , the show held in Ragusa for home decoration, design and craftmanship brands, could enjoy an immersive multi-sensory experience. Four days of exhibitions, meetings and installations staged in the architectural jewels of the city, including churches, palaces and theaters that are UNESCO heritage
UNICA IN RAGUSA IBLA WITH THE SYMPHONY OF BEAUTY
September falls slyly like a feline, it shakes off the last summer heat and prepares to introduce an autumn that promises to be rich and full of new creative stimuli. For us at Unica, as previously announced, September begins with the participation in the Barocco e Neobarocco design festival to be
UNICA AND THE BAROQUE AMAZEMENT
After having introduced the relevance and general reasons why our poetics is close to the Neo-Baroque movement and in the run-up to show the World the preview of “Ibla”, our new work created in collaboration with Roberto Semprini, at the “Barocco e Neobarocco” design festival to be held in Ragusa
UNICA AND THE INEVITABILITY OF MUSIC
Music is inevitable. If you want to listen to it, it will reach you sooner or later, like fate, like light, like a hug. Music is everywhere. You can hear it when the rain pours, the wind blows, and sometimes by just being quiet. Music is in everything if you
It is not just an ideal of art, but also an ideal of life.
UNICA collections, even if always the result of a creativity unfettered by extemporaneous trends and influences, following a research pathway that is also original, are now encompassed, by the definition of Neo-Baroque, more than by any other. The constant search for unprecedented style solutions, the departure from the rigid straight line
Milano Design Week continues
Milano Design Week continues its journey at Show-Hub Milano, where you can continue to watch the wonder of FIORITURE collection exhibited there and share the mood that has distinguished the UNICA brand since its creation. The ambitious challenge that accompanied us during the Design Week was the ability to create a
UNICA, BAROQUE AND NEO-BAROQUE
“It is not just an ideal of art, but also an ideal of life”As expressed by the well-known philosopher and art critic Dino Formaggio discussing Baroque, he then added, “For this reason, the rediscovered functionality of art in it seems closely related to the irrational contradictory nature of life.” This union,
Golden Vibes event
MDW22: a week which saw its peak in the Golden Vibes event. Seven days dedicated to illustrating UNICA through some tables of the Fioriture collection that highlight its cohesion with the high intrinsic value, the craftsmanship and the preciousness of the workmanship and the materials that define a magnetic and seductive
UNICA, SUSTAINABILITY AND ALL THE LOVE FOR CINTA
In its vision as total work of art, Unica has always asked itself how creation can exceed its own aesthetic and functional purpose to tending towards another purpose, parallel to the previous ones but able bring help, exactly capable of “Adjuvare” something and/or someone. The search for sustainability in our project
Meet UNICA at show – hub – milano
Meet UNICA at show - hub - milano Via Morimondo 2/3 10 a.m. - 6.30 p.m. show-hub-milano.it
2022 Shanghai Design Award
On May 5th, 2022, our collection ISIDE has been awarded in the 2022 Shanghai Design Award.Design and feelings on a journey towards harmony with shapes and history.Precious materials such as glass and steel have been chosen because they blend perfectly in an innovative, all-Italian concept that removes barriers of time
UNICA AND THE TIGER
We often talk about the relationship that the Unica universe has instinctively established with nature and its elements. We have talked about how, the inspiration that the natural world gives our creative designers, is one of the greatest impetuses of our project and how, trying to bring the vibration of wildness
UNICA AND THE YEAR OF THE TIGER
While the days grow lighter and longer, giving the sensation of an early spring, on the first of February, Chinese New Year, we officially entered the Year of the Tiger, an event which happens every 60 years. The Chinese zodiac is composed of 12 signs, but unlike the Western zodiac, they
UNICA AND THE 3 F’s
While the world buzzes awaiting the rebirth of a post pandemic reality, Italy’s economic, trade and social recovery seems to go hand in hand with the relaunch of its products, with particular focus on the ones that represent absolute excellence in the eyes of the world, i.e. the three F’s
UNICA MEETS THE SKY
The sky is there. Regardless of the relationship that links us to it, it is there. It is there as we age, in the concept of duration itself, in the diversity of feelings, in the different beauty of situations, when we smile when we discover something and when we become sad
Unica meets Fashion
Inspiration is everywhere. In a flower, amongst the pots, sometimes in an unexpected smile or the hot wind of a summer afternoon. It often runs around the rim of an enamelled cup, vibrates in a bird’s song or rests in a broken shell; and anyway, it is always the possibility to
Unica meets Nature
Nature surrounds us, it is what we are made of and what we need. Nature is a combination of the animal, plant and mineral kingdoms. The sky, earth and water on the whole. Nature is us and the relationship that humans establish with her often recounts how we living beings get
UNICA’S BIRTHDAY
Born under the sign of Scorpio Unica turns seven today, it was created on 27 October 2014. In these years, step by step, we have made it grow and let it make mistakes, challenge corners and sharp edges, find the right measurement of its barycentre, challenge obstacles and gravity, until managing, experience
Salon Art + Design 2021
From November 11th to 15th UNICA will be attending the prestigious Salon Art + Design in the amazing frame of Park Avenue Armory in New York City. Presenting Rosa Rosae Rosae table of FIORITURE collection (Design by Arcade Studio and UNICA) an all-Italian aimed to remove barriers between the rooms, transforming
Unica meets Art
Unica was created in art and, always, through the collaboration with artists and creative types, it shares methods and possibilities. Probably, aside from every generic definition and every plausible etymological root, millions of different visions of art exist, at least one for every person who practices it. From our point of view,
2021 Sydney Design Award
On September 16th, 2021, our collection ECLISSE has been awarded in the 2021 Sydney Design Award. The harmony of circular shapes playing with fluidity to obtain the optical effect of the moon crossing in front of the sun.Eclisse arises from the innate and ancestral desire of man to be
Unica meets poetry
C.G. Jung argued that the meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Each meeting, by definition, substantially upsets an equilibrium, forever changing the view of the key players on the state of things. We have always believed in meetings,
STOVE MAGAZINE PRESENTS UNICA
UNICA is born from the alchemical relationship between Vanessa Stella (designer and creator) and Fabrizio Rocchi (designer, art director and production supervisor), a brand dedicated to the art of furniture and the centuries-old manufacturing of glass, precious metals and semiprecious stones. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da2yo1foPQc
Unica at Milano Design Week
UNICA is proud to invite you visiting our Temporary Exhibition in partnership with Nicoletta Lanati that will take place at: SHOW HUB MILANO Via Morimondo 2/a Artistic creation in its most sublime declination should be able to translate aesthetic expression into subtle language, capable of communicating with the interior of the human being to the point
UNICA AT COURT: A DAY AT THE ROCCHETTA MATTEI
On the 14th of July, two eclectic souls will meet in the Bolognese Apennines: our company has undertaken to offer its employees a visit to the fairy-tale Rocchetta Mattei in Grizzana Morandi.Built at the behest of Count Cesare Mattei (1809 - 1896) on the ruins of the Rocca di Savignano,
JAPONISME: FROM THE RISING SUN TO EUROPE
In the world of fashion and design, influences and inspirations from the Japanese world have always been breathed in, where originality is a founding feature. There are many ties, suggestions, connections with art, design and fashion, sectors in which the decoration, colors, shapes of kimonos are inexhaustible sources of inspiration.The bond between
THE SICILIAN BAROQUE MEETS INTERNATIONAL DESIGN
The concept of Biomimesis, the basis of UNICA's production, passes through the doors of Palazzo Nicolaci in Noto.With the Fioriture collection the ambitious goal is set to remove the barriers between the rooms, transforming each space into a place "invaded" by nature, where inspiration has no limits and the interior takes on the
MELBOURNE DESIGN AWARDS 2020
MELBOURNE DESIGN AWARDS 2020 On June 25th, 2020, our collection ORBITA has been awarded in the 2020 Melbourne Design Award. The project stems from the desire to create highly representative tables by attributing the POETIC IDEA of the form to the feature. An unavoidable fusion
UNICA ACTIVE IN WILDLIFE PROTECTION
Unica really cares about nature and wildlife protection. Our concepts aim to remove barriers between the rooms transforming each space into a literally "invaded" place from nature, where inspiration has no limits. All our products arises from the innate and ancestral desire of man to be able to merge with nature in an indissoluble unicum
UNICA at Fuorisalone from June 15th to 21st 2020
Unica is proud to announce its participation in the 2020 edition of the Fuorisalone which this year offered a brand new and totally digital guise, always remaining the reference point for world design. Through digital we talked about our products making them live in first person and bringing our designers and our concept to the
ORBITA AWARDED WITH GOLD AT PRESTIGIOUS PARIS DESIGN AWARD 2019
We are proud to announce that our collection ORBITA won the GOLD prize at the Paris Design Award 2019. The Paris Design Awards program accelerates transformation, celebrate courage and growing demand for design.
PAPAVERI WINS AGAIN! SILVER PRIZE A’ DESIGN AWARD
The successes of Papaveri Table never cease to amaze. Once again Papaveri was awarded at a prestigious international design competition, the A' Design Award, and got the Silver Prize!
UNICA WINS THE GOLD AWARD AT THE LONDON DESIGN AWARD 2018 WITH “PAPAVERI”
The international successes of Unica continues! Last November, 22nd Unica received the "gold" prize in London, participating at the prestigious international "London Design Award" with the table “Papaveri” Precious materials like glass and steel were chosen because they combine perfectly in a 100% Italian, innovative concept that eliminates barriers between rooms
A SPECIAL THANKSGIVING
"Thank you for being part of the EPDA winners cocktail event that was held on September 26th at the ADAM - Design Museum Brussels." EPDA
UNICA WITHDRAWS IN BRUXELLES THE EUROPEAN PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD
Another recognition is added to the collection of achievements achieved this year by UNICA! Last week we were invited to the European Product Design Award 2018, which was held at the ADAM - Brussels Design Museum. In this prestigious venue we had the opportunity to meet with designers from all over
“LE MILLE E UNA NOTTE” REWARDED AT THE EUROPEAN PRODUCT DESIGN AWARD
Our philosophy is simple: emotion and design are a perfect combination, able to enchant and make fall in love those who look. A further demonstration of this reality is the coveted prize we have received. "Le Mille e una notte" collection received the Silver Prize at the European Product Design Award! The works signed
COURSE OF “ARCHITETTURA EMOZIONALE E BIOENERGETICA”
Do the space in which we live affect us? Already at the time of the Romans the existence of a real consciousness of the environments was theorized, a soul called "Genius Loci". Architecture must dialogue with the bioenergetic and emotional aspects of the world around us in order to create places
UNICA EXPOSES AT FUORISALONE MILAN 2018
The emotions of Unica conquer a new territory! With our presence from 17 to 22 May at Fuorisalone 2018 we have shown the value of a design that puts the relationship between soul and furniture first. The feedback was very positive: our exhibition attracted constant attention from visitors during all the