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Flowers, Light, Dreams Luisa Beccaria, a refined fashion designer, has extended her creative energies to embrace a complete lifestyle offer, including the tabletop, featuring a delicate natural world by Marta Bernasconi, ph. Courtesy by Luisa Beccaria
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ilanese designer Luisa Beccaria has expressed her
artistic talent through domestic interiors. According to Luisa
concept of beauty since the very beginning of her
Beccaria, the home is a source of inspiration and ideas,
career, when she presented her first collections in
and these, interpreted through Italian artisanal excellence,
art galleries and magnificent gardens in the centre of Milan.
translate into style objects for interior design, spaces and
In the early 1990s her garments appeared on the runways of
gardens. The contemporary elegance of her work also graces
Paris and Rome, where many celebrities fell in love with her
dinner tables – during the recent Milan Design Week she
style, an appealing melange of prints, colours and fabrics
presented her Dreamy Garden line with a display in the
clothing an ethereal, romantic woman resembling a beautiful
interior patio at the monobrand showroom in the Brera
painting, even when surrounded by the brutalist concrete of
district. The mood it created was a wonderful expression
an urban landscape.
of the collection’s style, evoking a dreamlike natural setting
After making a name for herself with her poetic, hyper-
with a secret garden and a table at its centre, all rendered
feminine dresses, the designer has gradually extended her
in restrained colours, always a feature of the designer’s
concept of beauty to take in homeware, expressing her
distinctive colour palette.
