Milano Design Week 2024

EL tells of the relationship between the parts, of what is shown in the light and what is hidden in the shadows, of unstable balances, fragile tensions, uncertain knots or interrupted trajectories, wearable metaphors of a game of competition between weights, materials, colours in which the strongest does not win. Jewellery conceived as mobile gears in bronze, micro-architectures made of sheet metal and profiles for modelling and industrial small metal parts, welcome and are composed with the productions of Italian craftsmanship. The choice of Venetian glass and enamels also responds to the need to obtain primary shapes (cubes, spheres, parallelepipeds, lines) with a wide chromatic range and a strong materiality, also using materials with a random choice or with particular fondness (precious, semi-precious, not at all precious stones, etc.) that 'call' the shape of the jewel, all assembled in a hybridisation between handmade and mass production, with a modernist aesthetic but with a local flavour. Galvanic baths in yellow, rose and ruthenium gold and different surface finishes give further variations.

EL produces objects to be worn, which have an accomplished form in themselves, but which can find new senses precisely because they are in close relation with the body: the body sets in motion and activates the artefact, which then becomes jewellery, translating the form into movement and sound, into a living, experienced object.

EL was born in 2015 from the meeting of Isabella Attanasio, graphic designer, and Marina Migneco, architect. They design, assemble and finish their production between Catania and Rome, availing themselves of Venetian and Sicilian companies for galvanic, microfusion and glass and enamel production.

EL is present in the bookshops of major museums and galleries in Italy and Germany, collaborates for projects and events in France, Switzerland and Japan.