Objects and Signs
Everyday objects, signals, tools, emblems, brands, flags, product catalogs, newspapers and magazines, advertising images, film and television frames are recurrent materials in contemporary art. This all-round penetration into the environment we encounter every day goes beyond the traditional vision that excluded everyday objects and images from aesthetics. The use of elements known to all, often accentuated by repetitions and accumulations, introduces the theme of a new consideration of reality, even of living reality.
In this perspective, even interior design is populated with complements that often become central. Here we talk about the diffusers of aromas and essences in all their forms and all their suggestions. Objects with an exclusive and refined design, objects that today have passed every aesthetic and functional examination, but their heart is not design. Good design is the pretext, the Trojan horse, to subtly enter every space of the house, study, walk-in closet, or camper, office, and from there to insinuate a sensory, olfactory effect that generates a change, an invisible extension in the air and space to promote our well-being.
Harmonic living: the well-being of breathing
The fragrances of the essences are released into the air, touching the fabrics, evaporating from precious natural liquids that impregnate wood immersed in amber glass, or are immersed in precious mixtures heated by fine flames in precious lamps, but all tend to rebalance, well-being, must contribute to the pleasure of enjoying the best spaces of the house and multiply its positivity.
Acting on the air to be breathed, enriching it with healthy essences, stimulating olfactory perceptions, stimulating the opening of the respiratory tract, dissipating contamination and air toxicity, increasing positive perceptions, reinforces the good rules of bio-architecture, which needs to design and build environments compatible with nature, without harmful materials, in environmental positions that respect the physical and mental well-being of man.
The search for the pleasure of living also recalls the Chinese tradition of Feng Shui, an ancient discipline of reading and interpreting the landscape, the forms of buildings and the spaces inside buildings, to avoid the negative influences of various kinds that can affect buildings and man. And then there is also, for those who appreciate them, the rules of Domotherapy and subtle Domotherapy.
Finally, we all know that even the right fragrances in the air affect our relaxation, energy tone, emotions, health, and finally pleasure.
If we are not outdoors among balsamic trees, in a marine habitat, or among fragrant flowers in the garden, we just have to make the best use of natural aromatherapy for spreading in living spaces.
The scent of the environment has an ancient history, touches the sanitization, purification and preciousness of the space where man lives, and is also ancient the history of incense, resin burners and perfumes of antiquity, the scents of the environment are found in ancient Egypt, Ethiopia, the Middle East reach India, China, Japan, the Americas. The diffusion of fragrances of perfumes and essences in the air is a language found in the traditional medicine of almost all ancient civilizations.
Fragrances of Myrrh, Incense, Olibanum, Herbs, Fruits, Woods, Tree Resins, Mosses and Leaves cross all continents and today we find them also in our living room, bathroom, bedroom or office.
The selection of aromas and essences
Our ancestors ignored the composition of the essences, but used them daily for their antiseptic virtues, both in food and in external diffusion in the prevention of epidemics. It is said that Hippocrates, during the plague in Athens, used them with fumigations sanitizing the infected air.
In ancient times even the shaman, or the priest, followed the instinct to burn in precious containers, incense, wood and resin, balsamic oils, spread essences of flowers, fruits and plants in sacred liturgies dedicated to healing, to ward off infection, to solve a disease, to intensify the solemnity of prayer to the divinity.
Today, in modernity, it is up to us to safeguard the wise tradition of perfumes and natural essences as a cultural heritage and to give a scientific basis to their effectiveness.
The phytotherapy industry has taken up this legacy. The production of balsamic, natural, therapeutic or simply activating perfumes and essences of well-being has reached levels of production of great worldwide importance.
The selection of fragrances to be used today is strictly of superior quality in terms of ingredients and the choice of raw materials, 100% natural, present in organic farming, in the same countries of origin, produced with certified extraction methods and compatible with the protection of the environment.
Today, the most traditional essences of incense, myrrh, cedar, sandalwood, cypress, rosemary, geranium, anise, thyme, oregano, mint, eugenia, hyssop, juniper, pine, eucalyptus, cajeput, lemon, orange, mandarin, lavender, sage, cinnamon, caraway, jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, bergamot, vanilla, violet, rose, and many more, are added, now discovered thanks to globalization and the intensification of botanical research.