{"id":10024508,"date":"2026-06-21T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T10:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/object-character\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:27:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T11:27:01","slug":"design-studio-coseincorso-in-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/design-studio-coseincorso-in-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Object Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

Founded in 2021 by Marzia Cerio and Marwann Frikach, the design studio COSEINCORSO<\/a> creates furniture, objects and spaces that emerge from stories, places and materials\u2014as translations of cultural memory into contemporary design<\/a>. In this interview, Cerio and Frikach discuss how local history, artisanal processes and material origins<\/a> shape their work, why authenticity<\/a> begins with slowness and careful listening, and what role design can play when it seeks to preserve memories.<\/p>\n

Chapter <\/em>Coseincorso translates local histories into furniture, objects and accessories. How do you decide which stories are worth carrying forward through design?<\/p>\n

Coseincorso <\/em>We think a story earns its place when it carries something unresolved\u2014something that hasn’t fully found its form yet. We’re drawn to places where history left a fracture, or that hold something hidden: a way of life interrupted, a knowledge almost lost, a landscape that changed so radically that the people living in it had to reinvent themselves entirely.<\/p>\n

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\u00bbThe Memory Stool\u00ab, \u00bbThe Axis Table\u00ab and \u00bbThe Flare Lamp\u00ab (2026)
\nfrom the new An\u00e0phora collection, handcrafted in Italy.<\/p>\n

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Our last collection, An\u00e0phora<\/em>, for example, was about Lake Fucino in Abruzzo: in the 19th century, an entire lake was drained by a prince’s ambition. The fishermen who had lived by its rhythms overnight became farmers. That loss\u2014of water, of memory, of identity\u2014is the kind of tension we look for.<\/p>\n

Chapter <\/em>Is there a particular moment or circumstance that usually sets a new project in motion for you?<\/p>\n

Coseincorso <\/em>It often starts with a small trip, and then the urgency to discover a story and translate it into something tangible arrives on its own. We began our studio during the pandemic, in a period of forced stillness that gave us time to look more carefully at the places we were already inhabiting. We discovered the b\u00e9guinages of northern Europe\u2014communities of women who invented a way of living that was both spiritual and economic at once. That isolation and that independent way of living felt deeply connected to us at that moment.<\/p>\n

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\u00bbThe Axis Table\u00ab, 2026<\/p>\n

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With the Fucino, instead, we drove through what is now one of the most industrialized agricultural plains in central Italy. From the plain, you understand that a vast lake must have been there once. That disconnection between what you’re seeing and what you know must have existed\u2014that’s what led us to translate the feeling into a narrative form.<\/p>\n

Chapter <\/em>You work closely with artisans and remain attentive to the origins of materials. What metaphysical role does this physical, hands-on process play in shaping an object?<\/p>\n

Coseincorso <\/em>The hand is where intention becomes real. We always start with drawings and prototypes, then we work through the process together with the artisan. Castelli\u2014a small mountain village in our region\u2014was the pharmaceutical pottery capital of Renaissance Italy. They produced jars for apothecaries and kings, and their craftspeople are still faithfully reproducing those same gestures five centuries later. Working with those ceramists for our Apothecary<\/em> collection was exactly what we’re after: the moment when making and meaning become the same thing, and the story lives inside the material rather than being attached to it from outside.<\/p>\n

Chapter <\/em>What do you believe is the most important mindset a designer needs in order to create work that feels authentic beyond mere aesthetic refinement?<\/p>\n

Coseincorso <\/em>For us, the starting point is never \u00bbwhat should this look like?\u00ab but \u00bbwhat is this place, this material, this practice actually asking of us?\u00ab Aesthetics emerge from that listening\u2014and often translate into a genuine connection between us and our artisans.<\/p>\n

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\u00bbThe Ember Tray\u00ab, 2026; metal bowl and candle holder\u2014 \u00bbtwo elements \/ one ritual.\u00ab<\/p>\n

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We also think authenticity requires a kind of resistance to speed. We both have an introverted side that leads us to step back from time to time in order to work and reflect. In a world saturated with images and trends, clarity comes from withdrawing enough to hear what actually matters to you\u2014not what the moment demands.<\/p>\n

Chapter <\/em>If design has the ability to preserve memories, places and gestures, what do you hope people encounter through your work in their own space?<\/p>\n

Coseincorso <\/em>We think of our work as existing at the intersection of museum and home, function and ritual. What we hope people feel is both the texture of the hand and a sense of poetry behind it\u2014the sense that an object holds a past they can’t quite name. Not because we’ve explained it to them, but because the form itself carries it.<\/p>\n

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\u00a9 Ailsa Cavers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u00bbThe Mirror of Simple Souls\u00ab was our first object, and mirrors are at the heart of our practice\u2014not only as a recurring form across our collections, but as a symbol of what we’re trying to do. Every piece asks you to look at yourself in relation to something larger, something older.
\nIf someone lives alongside one of our pieces and occasionally wonders about it, that’s enough. Memory doesn’t have to be explicit to be felt. [Ed.]<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Founded in 2021 by Marzia Cerio and Marwann Frikach, the design studio COSEINCORSO creates furniture, objects and spaces that emerge from stories, places and materials\u2014as translations of cultural memory into contemporary design. In this interview, Cerio and Frikach discuss how local history, artisanal processes and material origins shape their work, why authenticity begins with slowness and careful listening, and what role design can play when it seeks to preserve memories. Chapter Coseincorso translates local histories into furniture, objects and accessories. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10024493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[409,337],"tags":[393,358],"class_list":["post-10024508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-carousel","tag-design-en","tag-kunst-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10024508"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10024515,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10024508\/revisions\/10024515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10024508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10024508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapter.digital\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10024508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}