Our experience of an object or a space – the emotions it inspires and the memories it creates – is highly influenced by the interplay of surfaces, the points where color and texture meet. Developed especially for 3daysofdesign, Tactile Encounters is GUBI’s invitation to explore these points of intersection and to celebrate the sensory richness of layered spaces, where look and feel are harmoniously aligned.
Tactile Encounters’ visual concept takes its inspiration from the work of Anni and Josef Albers – the pioneering 20th-century Bauhaus artists whose work, writing, and teaching transformed our understanding of the relationship between color and perception, art and craft. In Tactile Encounters, GUBI has drawn upon Albers’ landscape of colors, forms, and textiles to graphically frame and contextualize a showcase of iconic and contemporary design.
Alongside new furniture and lighting editions from the likes of Pierre Paulin and Mathieu Matégot, GUBI unveils fresh material thinking from contemporary studios including Vibeke Fonnesberg Schmidt and GamFratesi. The new launches are an exploration of materiality, encompassing the rawness of natural stone, the polished perfection of plexiglass, the malleability of metal, the extraordinary potential of new material technologies – and the aesthetic possibilities of that often-overlooked material, light itself.
