Design Creative Director

• Oct 2018 - Present

COKIBARBIERI.IT Contemporary design brand A precious objects collection made in Italy with natural and vegan origin materials, conceived by architectural and product designer Coki Barbieri and created by the local craftsmen to expand a new slow living awareness and surround oneself with a few objects, capable of staying alongside us over time. The climate emergency and increased future anxiety push our work to imagine alternative ways of living, producing, and consuming. For that Coki Barbieri uses notions of geology, chemistry, and design culture to create new products (and materials) from fragments and waste from natural products (such as stone and minerals). COKI brand harness as possible the power of natural elements such as sun, water, and air to craft. Under this vision, nature dictates new production and consumption rhythms. In particular, the materials that make up the products are created as much as possible by hand, with "cold" procedures, and dried in the sun to compensate as much as possible for the CO2 emissions due to the production of borosilicate glass (a high-quality material chosen for its extreme hygiene, possibility of cleaning, durability, and non-toxicity). Each product can be divided into several parts, according to the materials that compose it and this allows us to always offer the repair of the single component, the replacement, or a second life to the material (reuse or recycling).