In case you actually have a hangnail on the heart beat of decor developments the final a number of years, you’ve most likely observed the reemergence of plain subject tiling therapies escaping the prescribed trappings of the kitchen and loo to sneak into each floor and nook of the house. Tiles might be discovered unironically adorning seemingly all the pieces lately, from facet tables to espresso tables to lighting, and now for the musically-inclined, a hi-fi turntable stand.
Working underneath the moniker Willow, Los Angeles-based designer Gretta Solie has been using the inexpensive and available materials with confidence, imparting a small catalog of furnishings and equipment with a glance that may be traced to the late Sixties/early Seventies efforts of influential Italian architectural agency, Superstudio.
In its extra colourful and pastel iterations, the reemergence of tiled furnishings typically adopts a quasi-nostalgia evocative of the 2010s vaporwave aesthetic. However as utilized by Solie in black and crimson for the Amore Mio assortment, the tiling displays a extra sensual Italo disco vibe that seemingly oozes from the laborious surfaces.
Tile does make wiping any errant crimson sauce clear up a easy job.
Original as a collaborative effort between Willow and musical artist Dangerous Nonno (aka Joey Francis), Amore Mio arrives as a simultaneous furnishings drop meant to coincide with an eponymous digital album launch.
“We determined to collaborate and incorporate Dangerous Nonna’s profession as a musician and producer and got here up with an aesthetically lovely, but additionally useful file participant stands that pays homage to his Italian roots,” explains proprietor/designer, Solie.
The $1,750 Monochrome Vinyl Stand is a whole, ready-to-listen stereo system, and features a color-matched turntable with two audio system snugly positioned beneath the stand’s prime floor. Out there in all-black or all-white finishes, every turntable stand additionally contains cupboard space for a small assortment of favourite vinyl information, with every sound system stand made to order by hand.
A extra provocatively hued 1-inch tiled Pink Vinyl Stand is obtainable as a bespoke possibility for anybody already with an current turntable, delivered sans audio system and file participant.
The smallest possibility from the Amore Mio assortment overtly wears its checkered previous in black and white tiling as a low turnable stand with a small vinyl storage opening under.
The Amore Mio assortment by Willow is moreover complemented by a choice of ground lamps, benches, chairs, and tables if you wish to full the naughty-naugahyde, crimson sauce on the lapel discotheque ambiance.
