VELOURIA || Where Design Becomes a Sensory Memory
Somewhere near and far in time, VELOURIA lingers—not as a place or person, but as a presence.
The latest exhibition by Collection Particulière, staged at the Fondazione Mudima in Milan, conjures a world where furniture transcends function, becoming poetry of texture, form, and feeling.
This year's presentation continues the brand's signature sensibility: understated luxury expressed through deep material resonance. Christophe Delcourt, Grégoire de Lafforest, Luca Erba, and Yabu Pushelberg lend their voices to this multi-authored harmony, crafting objects that whisper their stories through walnut grain, patinated bronze, brushed oak, and velvet-like textiles.
Sculptural yet welcoming, the TIO armchair and LOB table set the tone for VELOURIA’s tactile vestibule.
Each space within VELOURIA is a vignette, a chapter in an unfolding narrative of tactility. In the Vestibule, TIO armchairs recall the angled grace of transatlantic deck chairs, their sculptural lines softened by the plushness of Delcourt Textiles' LINN fabric. Nearby, the grogged clay of the ELP wall lamps emanates a quiet heat, echoing the toasty hues of their kiln-fired surface. The brushed smoked-oak LOB table grounds the composition with its subtle, smoky gravitas.
In the Boudoir, asymmetry and elegance meet in the LIL chaise and bronze ELSA side table.
In the Boudoir, the LIL chaise and ottoman lounge back-to-back, asymmetrical yet attuned, while the ELSA side table punctuates the scene like a bronze haiku—light, elemental, and perpetually in motion. The Lounge introduces the MIK ceramic modules and the swirling MIU low table, whose sculpted mahogany form seems less crafted than conjured. Beside them, the FAO sofa and NED armchairs are dressed in earthy spring tones.
A dialogue of contrasts: the MIU table’s fluid form meets the warmth of FAO’s textured upholstery.
At the Writing Desk, the ELB chair reveals its dual nature: a sinuous stainless-steel frame with the soul of French decorative tradition, engaging the walnut JEF desk in an elegant exchange. In the Dining Room, the YAB table and LUM chairs curve gently around the sculptural rhythm of the EUS screen—a piece that conceals only to reveal.
Refined restraint: the ELB chair and JEF desk honour craftsmanship through quiet sophistication.
VELOURIA is a tactile memory—a quiet symphony of heat and grain, weight and softness, permanence and gesture. It doesn’t demand your attention; it earns it slowly through the touch of leather, the shadow cast by a chair leg, and the muted gleam of brushed wood.
You won’t find Velouria in the dictionary, but you’ll remember her when you run your fingers along a cool curve of ceramic or pause to admire the perfect imperfection of bronze.
Picture credits by @Francis Amiand
