Good architecture is Fellini, a female body and love

He loves furniture on wheels to make it easier to move. He has no curtains in his house - because he does not want any filters between him and the sun. His favorite word is simple. He believes that all world problems would be solved much easier if people learned to feel themselves part of not only their country and religion, but the entire planet. Architect, designer and provocateur Fabio Novembre stands out among the new generation of designers and architects for eccentricity, daring and scale. The things, objects and interiors invented by him puzzle, annoy, surprise, amuse - in general, cause reciprocal feelings.

Fabio Novembre received an excellent education at the Milan Polytechnic Institute, not only technical, but also humanitarian (students in Italian architecture schools study philosophy, sociology, literature and art). “In Italy, you choose architecture to broaden your worldview, not to pursue a profession,” explains Fabio. “Education in this area has never been focused on knowing how to build buildings. When I left the walls of the institute, I had no idea how to put one brick on top of another. "

In 1994, when he was in New York, where he was fascinated by a passion for cinema and a desire to become a director, he met with fashion designer Anna Molinari, who entrusted him with the design of her first store in Hong Kong. This project was followed by other orders for the design of shops, restaurants, bars in London, New York, Singapore, Florence, Milan.

Critics characterize Fabio Novembre's style as a narcissistic neo-baroque. Its otherworldly, expressive and playful style is ideal for retail interiors. It is always a challenge, provocation, mystery, intrigue, and at the same time poetics.

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He calls the films of Fellini, the female body and love, the main sources of his inspiration. “I believe that love is the password for everything. Love is the energy of the Universe, with its help the heart of the world beats. " And architecture is like love: “Because, like love, it is the last sure means for dialogue without intermediaries. Architecture provides a three-dimensional focus for communicating with bodies, things. "

Fabio Novembre also contributed to the design of shoe boutiques. Its design for the Stuart Weitzman boutique cannot be called anything other than surreal. Russian journalists have more than once compared the shelves of the boutique with laces, but this is a “folk etymology”. The idea was different ...

"They went through my closets looking for skeletons. But, thank God, all they found were shoes, just shoes," Imelda Marcos, First Lady of the Philippines, said with a smile, shattering the feelings of all women who, like Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City, have long fetishized shoes. Just shoes! Shoes are truly the quintessence of modern design: an artifact requiring great skill on the part of the maker, an object of embodied desire for the wearer, muses Fabio Novembre. "Clothing doesn't always adapt to the changing body, but the best shoes always follow the contours of the foot down to the millimeter and adapt to it: perhaps that's why women admire Stuart Weitzman so much. When Stuart approached me about designing retail spaces featuring his shoes, I immediately thought of precious monstrances "à la Jesus," so that the shoes would be gift-wrapped for the customer, complete with ribbons. An imitation of these ribbons continuously follows the entire store space, showing (and guiding) the trajectory of the customer's desire vector. When working on any project, Novembre is never guided by functional considerations. His relationships with clients are built differently. For Fabio, a client is a patron, handing the designer a microphone so he can speak. Who does he work for? "I'm not interested in whether someone's backside is comfortable in a chair; I'm interested in something coming into someone's soul, something penetrating from the chair, from the drawers... I try to reach the heart. My works are love stories, fairy tales that come true."