Kiasmo - Francesco Di Dio - Frame - Wood, Ceramic






Taught design history at ISG Business School and owned Midi design shop for eight years.
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Francesco Di Dio for Kiasmo presents a single white ceramic tile on a natural wood frame, 20x20 cm with passepartout from the The Built in Mind series titled Pretty Mary’s house, produced 2020 or later in Torrepaduli (LE), Italy, in new condition with a certificate of authenticity and a rigid box.
Description from the seller
Kiasmo
Titolo della serie: The Built in Mind.
Nome: Pretty Mary’ house
Designer : Francesco Di Dio
Concept
The Built in Mind is a series of illustrations by architect Francesco Di Dio, known as Effe, for Kiasmo, and it explores architecture as a metaphor for the mind. In these works space does not obey the laws of physics nor the codes of traditional design: stairs that lead to nothing, inaccessible entrances, suspended and floating volumes, unsustainable proportions. They are structures that do not aspire to be built in the real world, but exist exclusively in the fluid territory of thought.
The mind is here the invisible architect. Each image is born as an interior project: a place generated by intuitions, memories, desires and perceptions. Like an architect, the mind designs spaces, opens passages, erects walls and invents perspectives through which we interpret the world. But unlike real architecture, these constructions do not have to respect rules, proportions or functional logic: they can be free, dreamlike, and contradictory.
The series reflects on how our thoughts construct our inner reality, our “mental house.” We often inhabit invisible structures made of beliefs, habits and interpretations inherited from our culture and environment.
Through Effe’s illustrations, The Built in Mind suggests instead the possibility of becoming architects of one’s own perception. The imagined architectures then become exercises in freedom: places where thought can experiment, deconstruct patterns and reconstruct new inner landscapes, each work being at once a building and a mental process: a construction that reveals how the reality we inhabit is, above all, a project of the mind.
Tile 20 x 20 cm with mat and natural wood frame accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Kiasmo and a rigid box
Unreleased, brand-new sample not yet present on the Kiasmo site
Seller's Story
Kiasmo
Titolo della serie: The Built in Mind.
Nome: Pretty Mary’ house
Designer : Francesco Di Dio
Concept
The Built in Mind is a series of illustrations by architect Francesco Di Dio, known as Effe, for Kiasmo, and it explores architecture as a metaphor for the mind. In these works space does not obey the laws of physics nor the codes of traditional design: stairs that lead to nothing, inaccessible entrances, suspended and floating volumes, unsustainable proportions. They are structures that do not aspire to be built in the real world, but exist exclusively in the fluid territory of thought.
The mind is here the invisible architect. Each image is born as an interior project: a place generated by intuitions, memories, desires and perceptions. Like an architect, the mind designs spaces, opens passages, erects walls and invents perspectives through which we interpret the world. But unlike real architecture, these constructions do not have to respect rules, proportions or functional logic: they can be free, dreamlike, and contradictory.
The series reflects on how our thoughts construct our inner reality, our “mental house.” We often inhabit invisible structures made of beliefs, habits and interpretations inherited from our culture and environment.
Through Effe’s illustrations, The Built in Mind suggests instead the possibility of becoming architects of one’s own perception. The imagined architectures then become exercises in freedom: places where thought can experiment, deconstruct patterns and reconstruct new inner landscapes, each work being at once a building and a mental process: a construction that reveals how the reality we inhabit is, above all, a project of the mind.
Tile 20 x 20 cm with mat and natural wood frame accompanied by an authenticity certificate from Kiasmo and a rigid box
Unreleased, brand-new sample not yet present on the Kiasmo site
