Photograph
courtesy Lisa Corti
Milano:
Lisa Corti - Bright colors for gloomy winter days. Colorful cushions brighten up a room on the
gloomiest of winter days and textile designer Lisa Corti is a master at color. The range of furnishings, clothes
and articles made by Lisa Corti are well known for their characteristic
weightlessness, transparency and wise use of colors and dyes. Mezzeri, quilts,
mandala, blankets pillows, curtains, tapestries and tablecloths. The style is
very oriental. The design is not only based on taste and elegance, but also on
the care given to what is essential for a lifestyle that combines a touch of
the Orient to the standards of Western living.
Lisa Corti. Textile designer Lisa Corti wears her bright
colorful clothes. “Ask
me about my work and I will tell you about my passion for color, a love that
has roots in far away lands, in my childhood in Africa. Women dressed in color,
only one color, moved into the light as if gliding. Mysterious angels in cobalt
pink, yellow, green, violet. I have always carried them within me. It seems
incredible, yet that cobalt, that pink in the sun are something I thrive on.” She explains.
Lisa Corti. Lisa Corti’s sketchbook sits on a table in
her home. Inspiration comes from her
various trips to India where she has carried out an in-depth search on the wide
range of fabrics and patterns in various areas of the country and creatively
transforming her designs, materials and colors in an infinite number of objects
and articles intended as house decorations and furnishings
Lisa Corti. Roses from the garden are also an inspiration
for her designs.
Lisa Corti. Color swatches hang over a painted chest in
her design studio. "When I discovered India. I
found the essence once again in the sweet organza, the impalpable glossy colored
air and the fragment of a cloud to be touched and used. Pure color that comes
to life as substance, it is weightless and runs, cheerful and gentle, stopping
at a central point. It winks and cannot be ignored. These are my tapestries.”
Lisa talks about her inspiration.
Photograph courtesy Lisa Corti
Lisa Corti.
Just six of the many colorful patterns Lisa Corti has designed. For the
designer, taste and beauty are not only aesthetic objectives, they are also
essentials that fill up her daily life, as well as her furnishings and
clothing. Geometry is a constant, as are the elements of nature, the intense
colors, the transparencies and weightlessness of the fabrics. Lisa invents
things that she enjoys; she does not chase after fashion but goes for the sense
of color, light and shapes, in the constant search for symmetry between ancient
and contemporary Western cultures.