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Pastel colors, clean lines, and surreal worlds where dreams and reality meet. For What’s in a Lamp?, Frelly builds a series of images in which each Foscarini lamp becomes a hat to be worn, turning design objects into living presences that reshape the space around the people who wear them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n Discover the full project \u201cWhat\u2019s in a lamp?\u201d <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>

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Enrico Focarelli Barone, known as Frelly, creates images that spring from a sensation. “I start with a detail \u2014 a figure, a light \u2014 and let everything else emerge, poised between reality and imagination,” he says. An illustrator specializing in editorial design and conceptual illustration, Frelly has created a visual language characterized by limited color palettes, large swaths of color, and figures suspended in a balance between reality and imagination. <\/p>\n

In the series he created for What\u2019s in a Lamp?, Foscarini lamps become hats worn by women from around the world. Not decorative objects, but presences that alter the silhouette and the perception of space. In each illustration, a suspended moment is thus created, where form speaks before the story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>

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How would you describe your work to someone who can’t see it?<\/strong>
\nI draw images that grow from a feeling. I start with a detail \u2014 a figure, a light \u2014 and let everything else emerge, in a balance between reality and imagination. Color plays a central role: a few tones, broad expanses of flat color, to build atmosphere and emotion.<\/p>\n

How does a story become an illustration? <\/strong>
\nI usually start without a clear story in mind. I begin drawing and let myself be guided \u2014 at a certain point, the image itself starts to speak.<\/p>\n

You interpreted Foscarini’s lamps as hats. Where did that idea come from?<\/strong>
\nThey depict frozen moments. In this case, I also drew inspiration from real-life poses and references, letting the shapes\u2014of the body, the clothes, and the lamps\u2014guide me.<\/p>\n

What stories do the illustrations tell?<\/strong>
\nRaccontano momenti sospesi. In questo caso sono partito anche da pose e riferimenti reali, lasciando che fossero le forme \u2014 del corpo, degli abiti e delle lampade \u2014 a guidarmi.<\/p>\n

The women wearing the lamp-hats come from all over the world. How do you avoid falling into stereotypes when working on something like that?<\/strong>
\nBy working through subtraction. I avoid details that are too explicit and look for something more essential \u2014 leaving room for interpretation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>

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How do you build a story starting from an object, a space, a situation? <\/strong>
\nI start drawing and putting elements into relationship with one another. Sometimes all it takes is a small shift, and the image begins to suggest a story on its own.
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\nHow do your project concepts come together? <\/strong>
\nFrom drawing. I follow an initial intuition and let it develop as I go, until it becomes a clear idea.
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\nAnd how do they turn into finished illustrations?<\/strong>
\nThrough simplification and a focus on balance. Few elements, large areas of flat color, and a tight palette \u2014 usually four or five colors \u2014 to give the image strength and coherence.
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\nHow do you know when an illustration is finished and working?<\/strong>
\nWhen there’s nothing left to take away and everything is in balance: shapes, space, and color.
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\nWhat story would you most love to illustrate, and why?<\/strong>
\nI couldn’t give you a definitive answer \u2014 there are so many stories waiting to be told. I just hope it’s a good one.
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\nWhat does creativity mean to you?<\/strong>
\nFor me, creativity means starting from an intuition and letting it grow by following your emotions, drawing inspiration from everything around you. It’s the ability to turn what lives in your mind into something real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>

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Discover the collaboration with Enrico Focarelli and the full series on the Instagram channel @foscarinilamps, and explore all interpretations of the What\u2019s in a Lamp? project, where international artists are invited to freely interpret light and Foscarini collections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \n Visit @foscarinilamps on Instagram <\/a>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>

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