NODI. Cultura, impresa e design del legno trentino
NODI. Culture, enterprise and design of Trentino wood is a project promoted by the Autonomous Province of Trento and coordinated by Trentino Sviluppo in collaboration with Trentino Marketing, curated by Paolo Baldessari and Aldo Colonetti. Its aim is to enhance and promote the internationalization of Trentino wood.
The project originates from one of the region’s key productive excellences—wood—a material deeply connected to local culture and manufacturing tradition. It brings together the expertise of companies across the supply chain with contemporary design, highlighting a widespread heritage of artisanal and industrial knowledge rooted in the territory.
The “knot” thus becomes both metaphor and design principle: a point of connection between skills, business cultures, and creative visions, as well as a distinctive sign that preserves the biological memory of the material and affirms its authenticity.
The proposed theme—home and hospitality, the inhabited space in its many forms—has guided each design collaboration through a reflection suspended between interior and exterior, between private dimension and collective life, between landscape and community. This dialogue places at its core the identity of Trentino wood, interpreted as a natural material capable of expressing a shared, contemporary language while remaining grounded in its territory.
NODI. Culture, enterprise and design of Trentino wood represents a pragmatic laboratory for research and development. Direct collaboration with high-profile designers has enabled participating companies to experiment with new technical and constructive solutions, expand their formal vocabulary, strengthen their cultural and competitive positioning in international markets, and consolidate a supply-chain vision capable of integrating craftsmanship with industrial innovation.
DESIGNERS
Michela Baldessari | Patrizia Bertolini | Lorenzo Damiani | Francesco Faccin | Alessandra Fumagalli Romario | Monica Graffeo | Giulio Iacchetti | Raffaella Mangiarotti | Lorenzo Palmeri | Donata Paruccini | Matteo Ragni | Nicolò Spinelli | Ludovico Spataro | Alex Terzariol with M.E. Ripamonti | JVLT // JoeVelluto
Alongside the fifteen projects, a special intervention by Mario Botta is presented with his work Icosaedro, exhibited in Piazza Compasso d’Oro at the entrance of the ADI Design Museum, also during Milan Design Week. Inspired by the Cabanon, the iconic retreat designed by Le Corbusier on the French Riviera, the project takes the form of a small dwelling conceived to engage with the Alpine landscape. The structure, made of Trentino wood, will later be installed in Pieve Tesino (Trento).
The exhibition design is by David Dolcini, whose research has long been connected to wood as a design material.
The project is accompanied by a publication conceived as a design object, with visual coordination and art direction by Gianluigi Colin. The book gathers critical contributions, testimonials from the protagonists, and original graphic works by Colin, offering a cross-sectional reading of the entire project.
