Tabletop, But Make It Fashion: Serax Collabs With Marni
The Italian fashion house partners with Belgian design label Serax to launch Midnight Flowers, an elegant collection of porcelain tableware, celebrating the artistic spirit of the Marni brand.
Encompassing 120-pieces of hand-illustrated porcelain plates, dishes, cups, saucers and teapots, the botanical-inspired collection interprets the Marni brand values through a new medium, highlighting an avant-garde approach that holds a constant dialogue with the world of art, with Serax as proud partners. Envisioned by Creative Director Francesco Risso, the sophisticated yet offbeat tableware collection embodies Marni’s dynamic essence, with the intention to reawaken the tablescape with its playful energy and quirky elegance.
With a range of different-sized plates, dishes and bowls, teapots, cups and saucers in slightly asymmetrical forms, the shape of each piece materialises the importance of the hand touch and emphasizes the quality of the porcelain. Embellished with colorful hand-illustrated botanical depictions, the collection’s nature-inspired motif presents a gentle palette of mauve, teal and rose with notes of lime, reminiscent of the floral patterns ever present in Marni’s ready-to-wear collections. With each piece intended to be freely composed to welcome an alternative visual narrative, the liberal amalgamation of these delicate designs draws a parallel between discipline and creative chaos and fosters an infinite alternative affinity.
“Despite the obvious dissonances in bringing to life a ready-to-wear collection and a tableware series, there are in fact many subtle touch points,” said Francesco Risso. “Both leave space to dialogue, materiality, and sensorial emotions, and by anchoring the new line around these notions, we have managed to translate Marni’s personality into a new physical form.”