Interview with Paola Navone.

An anticipative designer that has always dialogued with cultures, historical periods, ethnics groups, diversities. A creator of objects, environments, atmospheres, emotions in complete freedom. Thus made her great and unique. Paola Navone does not follow trends, she creates them.

What has changed in the last twenty years of design? And what will change in the last year that will take us to 2020?
I think, if God permits, there is more freedom. It’s already a good answer. It’s not as if you can analyze changes, the real change is that by now everything coexists and everything can coexist more and more. What will change? The level of freedom will increase.

Do you think this freedom expresses the fact that design has intercepted thousands other products, thousands other needs, thousands other expressions?
Let’s say that there is more freedom from those who use design. It is like clothes, one does not mind the problem of what is the new collection of the next six months, puts on whatever, and this type of evolution happened in décor. There is not this sort of subjugation to the architect or to the decorateur. In this sense I say people have more freedom. And also designers are more free that by now burst in all directions. The panorama is more free as it opened to creativity and countries that were once considered to be non-existent or marginal like Asia, Africa rather than Northern Europe. This privilege has broken a bit.

Is this issue, this opening dangerous for us?
It’s dangerous yes and no, meaning if it arouses curiosity, the idea of scouting, adventure, it’s not. If it produces defensive attitude, it is clearly the end.

You have done so much in an eclectic free manner, but what is the fil-rouge of your work if you could define it?
Curiosity, the desire to look to the next day, never to what is finished. The projects of which I am most fond of are the ones that are not finished, because for me as soon as they finish, a period, an adventure, a journey ends.

But could there be a finish line, an idea, an object, a creation?
Is there never an end to curiosity? There is never an end meaning that it is actually a sort of a treasure hunt that at the end is found somewhere.