Until Nov. 22, New York City’s Null Object will host Nullus Locus, an exhibit that celebrates a new embroidery technique used for furniture, as well as vases created through a special collaboration with painter Sally J. Han.

MILAN — Fabio Zambernardi, the former design director of the Prada and Miu Miu brands, has resurfaced in the world of collectible furniture.

Until Nov. 22, embroidered furniture designs developed with architect and designer Massimiliano Locatelli will be on display at New York City’s hybrid gallery Null Object, located in Dimes Square.

Zambernardi, who left the Italian fashion group in 2023 after four decades, and Locatelli developed a hybrid process called manomachine, which means hand-machine in Italian. Through it, digital patterns are stitched into wood by a modified embroidery machine, as the material is guided by hand.

Locatelli said the collection was born from a shared curiosity with his friend Zambernardi. “Fabio comes from fashion, having spent years at Prada, and I come from architecture. We kept returning to a simple question: what happens when you take a gesture from tailoring and apply it to a material that has nothing soft about it?” he told WWD, explaining they sought to “draw with a needle” on wood and eventually employed modified looms to stitch metal threads into wood veneer.

“Through the rhythm and arrangement of the stitches, the image gradually emerged, rising from the surface,” he said. Locatelli is well known for his upscale residential designs, as well as office, retail spaces and showrooms.

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