Materica, which specializes in the wire metallization of the most diverse surfaces, is participating for the first time in Milano Design Week with its own installation: INTERNA_ MENTE. In this immersive experience, the Veneto-based company explores its alchemical ability to transform materials in surprising and beautiful ways.

In an always-open process of experimentation, Materica brings new expressive capabilities out of almost every type of material, such as wood, marble, stone, steel and textiles. An electric arc gunmelts wires of pure metal, from brass to bronze, zinc to copper, micronizing them and projecting them at high speed as tiny particles onto the surface to be coated. The metal particles immediately adhere to a pre-treated surface and quickly cool, thus preserving the material and coating even its finest details. It is an extremely versatile process that ennobles even the simplest and seemingly poorest materials, following geometries and enhancing textures or, in other cases, smoothing and homogenizing even the most rough, uneven surfaces. The metal can then be further treated – oxidized, colored, silvered, antiqued or polished – for a wide variety of characters and sensory effects.