CAMERA CON VISTA
EDIT NAPOLI
NAPLES, ITALY
CONCEPT DESIGN
DESIGN ENGINEERING
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
BUDGET & TIMING CONTROL
2026
Anyone who enters must tell a story
A Room Between Reality and Imagination
For EDIT Napoli 2026, we took part in Camera con Vista, the new format inviting designers, studios, and brands to reinterpret the room as a space for living, experimentation, and staging. For us, the room becomes a threshold: not simply an opening onto the landscape of the Gulf of Naples, but a point of access to what we are normally unable to see – an underwater world. Inspired by the recent discovery of a large and ancient coral reef in the Dohrn Canyon, more than 500 metres below the surface of the Gulf of Naples, we imagine a landscape capable of entering the inhabited space. The scientific discovery thus becomes a design opportunity: to construct a room in which interior and exterior, reality and imagination, surface and abyss begin to blur.
The Gaze as a Way of Inhabiting
In Camera con Vista, the view is not simply an opening onto the outside, but a tool for discovery. Our project starts precisely from this idea: looking means establishing a relationship between what we know and what we can only imagine. We introduce a series of presences – the waiter, the little girl, the mermaid, and the invisible man – who emerge within the space through the gaze of those who move through it. Contemplation thus becomes an integral part of the architecture itself. Before engaging with the objects, before sitting down, inhabiting, or moving through the room, the gaze constructs a first experience of the space. Looking becomes a way of inhabiting. And the view, before being a panorama, becomes a contemplative horizon.
A Contemporary Wunderkammer
At the centre of the installation, supported by the work of Matteo Santacroce – Bislacchi Studio, which helps frame and direct the gaze towards the window, stands a counter surrounded by two seats from TON’s P.O.V. 468 & Leaf series, customised in the “THiRTYONE Coral” colourway. It is a place for gathering, sharing, and storytelling, where sitting down means entering the scene, contemplating the view and the other characters, their lives and their stories, much like gathering around the counter of the Bar. The objects scattered throughout the installation take on the appearance of wreckage, artefacts, memories, and fragments of stories returned by the sea. The series of sculptures Gracilariae, handcrafted in THiRTYONE Crafting Workshop, follows forms that shift and transform, evoking the way the sea, over time, alters, smooths, and sublimates the materials it touches. Scientific discovery and literary imagination thus meet in the same place: the corals of the Gulf of Naples engage in dialogue with Stefano Benni’s visionary world, giving rise to a contemporary Wunderkammer, where the creative process is revealed through the Cabinet de Curiosité, highlighting how, in many cases, the process can be more precious than the final result.
