Sometimes, when putting your own work into words, you run the risk of trivializing or technicalizing; trying to explain a visual work is often a mistake.
    I would prefer for our work to be summarized as "untitled", exactly like a work of art, which can't be explained – it has to be lived, felt, suffered, or rejected; exactly like a work of art, which in good times and bad, stirs your emotion. "Emotion" – that's the key word. When we get a good idea, we get like euphoric little children excited to see
the result – we fill with emotion.
For us it's not business... it's life.
    Chemistry – enthusiasm – passion.
    Essential elements for isolating oneself in a world created and imagined by Peter Pans like ourselves.
"Visionary" Peter Pans is the best way to describe us.
Alessandro and I live our own dimension – we've managed to isolate ourselves and develop a language between us and our team, the Company – Ipe Cavalli – built of people like us: Luigi, the "heart and soul", creative and pragmatic, the entrepreneur... Leopold, the mind and the money, the director... and Eleonore, strategic communications, the architect.
Together we have developed an aesthetic code that is encrypted in our minds, but clearly visible in the products.. I think it's called "style" when you do different things... yet they resemble each other.
Someone asks: But why this neo-Gothic stamp interpreted by people of Mediterranean origin?
After a moment of surprise and in a narcoleptic state, I explain:
    "It happened one day by accident, after having read a novel inspired by far-off worlds...
When you're looking for ideas, any situation can offer many of them.
     A mysterious gate built of oval elements and spear-tipped caps appeared by chance in the right place at the right time. I don't know if it was dawn or dusk – we imagined who and what once lived beyond that gate – our imaginations carried us to a nonexistent world that nonetheless from that moment onward has lived distinctly in our minds...
King, queen, castle, a royal palace, warriors, a ball room, talking animals, we don't exactly know... But there is, perhaps, a will to recount what we have imagined in the objects we design. And we're not even sure that that gate truly exists.."
    A cross-pollination of styles, an oneiric vision composed of layers of time and materials, an idea of decorative design directly connected to high-tech materials and techniques.
   Experience, my life in fashion, Alessandro's rigorous institutional training, and a historic company on the international market that is passionate about life, have created a recognizable and boundary-crossing style that is the fruit of different mentalities with a common denominator: the desire to stir emotions.

Samuele Mazza