Published date:18/04/2026 | Last updated date:18/04/2026
Italian design practice Debonademeo Studio is bringing its Due Sicilie collection to Milan Design Week 2026, presenting the side tables for Chroma Composites at Hub161 in Milan’s Porta Venezia district from April 20 to 26. The presentation marks the studio’s first project in its new role as art director for the brand.
The collection was first introduced at EDIT Napoli 2025 and has now been repositioned within one of the design calendar’s most visible international stages. On Chroma Composites’ official portfolio page, the Due Sicilie line is described as part of its Chroma Objects offering, centered on vases, small tables, and furnishings that reinterpret Mediterranean geometries and southern Italian decorative culture through composite material surfaces.
Southern Italian heritage reworked through composite surfaces
The conceptual backbone of Due Sicilie lies in southern Italy’s decorative language. Debonademeo Studio draws from motifs historically found in churches, palaces, squares, terraces, and architectural surfaces across the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, translating those references into a contemporary furniture vocabulary.
Rather than treating heritage as ornament alone, the collection uses geometry and material composition to create a more layered visual narrative. The tables are defined by restrained forms and patterned surfaces that appear structured at first glance, yet reveal irregularity and variation through embedded fragments and surface compositions. This balance between order and asymmetry is one of the collection’s strongest design moves.
Chroma material gives each piece a distinct identity
At the center of the project is Chroma®, the proprietary composite material developed by the brand. According to Chroma Composites, the material combines resins with aggregates and reused elements, producing surfaces with visible inclusions and varied textures that give each object its own character.
The company refers to this process as Mersus, a production approach in which fragments such as stone, metal, or wood are embedded into the composite matrix. Once completed, the surface reads almost like a suspended collage, with decorative components appearing trapped inside the finished form. That makes the tables feel less like standardized products and more like controlled material compositions.
A design-week debut that fits broader 2026 themes
The Milan presentation is also well timed. Reporting around Porta Venezia Design District 2026 points to a wider emphasis on material storytelling, cultural memory, and new interpretations of design as an active social language. Within that context, Due Sicilie fits naturally: it is both historically referential and materially contemporary.
What separates this launch from a simple styling exercise is that the project is not only about formal appearance. It also reflects a broader design-market interest in composites that do more than imitate stone or luxury surfaces. Here, the composite itself becomes the medium through which reuse, texture, and identity are expressed.
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Editor’s Note
Due Sicilie is interesting not because it uses composites in furniture, but because it uses them culturally.
A lot of composite-based design still leans on performance language alone: lighter, stronger, more durable. This collection takes a different route. It treats composite material as a carrier of memory, ornament, and regional identity.
That shift matters.
When designers use composite processes to reinterpret historical visual codes rather than erase them, the material moves beyond engineering and into authorship. In that sense, Due Sicilie is not just a side-table collection for Milan Design Week. It is a small but telling example of how composite materials are entering a more mature design conversation—one where heritage, reuse, and surface intelligence can exist in the same object.
Bruce Zhou is the Founder of Jota Machinery, where he leads the development of equipment for flexible packaging and advanced composite materials. With experience in composite processing since 2011, his work is centered on practical engineering, product reliability, and building long-term value for manufacturing customers worldwide.
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