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MDW –– Milan Design Week

April 20 - 26, 2026

Superstudio Village

Sustainable flower-sculpture
that dresses and transforms the space

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Sustainable flower-sculpture that dresses and transforms the space.

"Every flower tells a story of rebirth.”

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BIO

Monia Giannini is a designer from the Marche region, a graduate in Fashion Design from IED Rome, with over twenty years of experience in the fashion industry.
She has collaborated with leading Couture and Prêt-à-porter brands, developing a design approach that balances elegance, research, and functionality.

After a long career as a designer and Product Manager, a personal hiatus allowed her to rediscover her creativity in a more intimate and conscious way.
This led to a new path, rooted in the values of sustainability, upcycling, and the transformation of materials.

From this intersection of fashion, art, and interior design, the “Sustainable Flower-Sculpture” project was born: handmade works created from discarded fabrics and reclaimed construction materials. These sculptural flowers transform spaces while telling a story of rebirth.

Inspired by nature and Art Nouveau style, Monia creates flowers and installations that blend poetry with formal precision, conveying a message of conscious beauty.
Each creation is a gesture of care, an invitation to slow down, and a way to bring poetry into the spaces we inhabit.

“I create unique works that transform environments into experiences.”

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Mission

My goal is to bring conscious beauty into everyday life through a design that merges creativity and responsibility.
Every work I create is born from the desire to breathe new life into materials destined for oblivion, transforming what is cast aside into something precious.

Sustainability is the heartbeat of my work: I use reclaimed fabrics, discarded garments, and reclaimed construction materials to create sculptural flowers that tell a story of metamorphosis and rebirth.
I believe that design should go beyond aesthetic form to become a language of change, capable of evoking emotion and inspiring new visions of the world.
Every flower I create is a tribute to nature, a tangible sign of how art can also be ethical.

I invite you to explore this ever-evolving world, where art, design, and sustainability meet to give life to creations that transform both spaces and the people who inhabit them.

“There is immense potential in everything that is discarded.”

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CONTEMPORARY BOTANICAL DESIGN

A project conceived as an exploration of the flower’s form—not merely as a natural element, but as an archetype of beauty, strength, and transformation.
Through a language that unites craftsmanship, art, and ethical design, Monia Giannini brings to life sculptural flowers crafted from reclaimed fabrics from the worlds of fashion and construction, restoring new substance and meaning to what was destined to disappear.

Each work is an act of balance between manual gesture and contemporary vision, between fragility and formal power.
These botanical sculptures transform space into a sensory and poetic experience, inviting reflection on the relationship between nature and artifice, time and regeneration.

With this project, Monia Giannini builds a bridge between tradition and innovation, between the material sensitivity of craftsmanship and the vision of contemporary design.
Her visual language moves between sustainability, aesthetics, and introspection, creating an emotional dialogue with the space and those who inhabit it.

Purple

MAXI PEONY
Silk, PVC, travertine
H 150 x 50 cm
2025

ORCHID TRIO

ORCHID TRIO
Cotton, iron, travertine
H 100/130/165 x 30 cm
2024

  • Purple

    MAXI PEONY
    Silk, PVC, travertine
    H 150 x 50 cm
    2025

  • ORCHID TRIO

    ORCHID TRIO
    Cotton, iron, travertine
    H 100/130/165 x 30 cm
    2024

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COLLABORATIONS

“My works engage in a dialogue with spaces and people who share the same ethical and poetic vision of design.”

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"Every project starts with a conversation. Available for collaborations, site-specific projects, and custom installations."

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Monia Giannini | Textile Artist

Textile sculptures & artistic installations
Founder • 𝗙𝗶𝗼𝗿𝗲-𝘀𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮 𝗦𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗲
Fuorisalone 2026 • Superstudio Village

Non ho lasciato il design.
L’ho portato oltre.

Per molto tempo ho pensato che prima o poi avrei dovuto scegliere.

Designer o artista.
Progetto o libertà.
Rigore o istinto.

Oggi so che non devo scegliere.

Il mio modo di creare nasce proprio dal dialogo tra queste due dimensioni: progettare una forma, ma anche lasciarmi guidare dalla materia; costruire con rigore, ma lasciare spazio a ciò che non avevo previsto.

È in questo equilibrio che riconosco oggi il mio lavoro.

"Dal corpo allo spazio"
Episodio 07 •
Penso come una designer.
Creo come un'artista.

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Oggi so meglio chi sono.
Ma non so ancora chi diventerò.

E, stranamente, è proprio questa la consapevolezza che sento più forte oggi.

So cosa mi appartiene.
So cosa non mi appartiene più.
So che non voglio smettere di cercare, di cambiare, di mettermi in discussione.

Ho imparato che non tutto deve avere subito una risposta.
Alcune cose hanno bisogno di tempo, di silenzio, di tentativi.
Di spazio.

Oggi sento di essere esattamente dove devo essere, anche se non so ancora dove mi porterà questa strada.

Forse crescere è anche questo:
conoscersi abbastanza da non avere più bisogno di sapere tutto.

E continuare a dare forma a ciò che ancora non ha un nome.

Buon compleanno a me.

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Da dove nasce il mio modo di creare?

Dalla natura che ho riscoperto tornando nei miei luoghi d'origine.
Dai fiori, dalle forme organiche, dalle linee che osservo durante le mie passeggiate.

E dall'Art Nouveau, che da sempre mi affascina per il modo in cui trasforma la natura in forma, linea, decorazione e architettura.

Nel tempo queste influenze sono entrate nella mia ricerca e nel mio modo di progettare.

Non cerco di riprodurre la natura.
La osservo, la interpreto e la trasformo.

Le linee sinuose, le forme organiche, il rapporto tra fiore, struttura e spazio diventano così parte del mio linguaggio.

Perché ogni forma nasce prima di tutto da uno sguardo.

“Dal corpo allo spazio”
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Dove nasce la mia ispirazione

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#FioreSculturaSostenibile #SustainableArt #TextileArt #ArtInstallation #UpcyclingDesign #ContemporaryArt

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