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Born from Glass
Deep-tinted glass, lit from within: the pine breeze, the dark mountain stone and golden hour at the lake. The mantra is sandblasted low into the surface, the mark engraved in the lid.
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A private label collection for a luxury resort in the Dolomites.
01 The brief
How do you turn a stay built on nature, silence and regeneration into something a guest can take home?
Through Mon Dada's private label, a luxury resort group in Northern Italy asked for its own home collection. Every one of its places lets the landscape speak first, so the object had to do the same.
02 Research
Before designing anything, I studied the brand, the place and the market.
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Brand study
Philosophy, values and tone of voice: poetic yet grounded.
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Visual identity
Landscape-first: natural light, raw texture, slow motion.
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Competitor analysis
Five Alpine and lake resorts compared on positioning, strengths and gaps.
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Merch & fragrance matrix
What competitors sell as home fragrance, and what they miss.
Key insight
Most resort fragrance looks like spa supplies: standard glass bottles and clinical diffusers. None of it feels like an object you'd want to keep.
Everything else stays at the retreat. Scent goes home.
A guest can't pack the mountain air, the stillness, the quiet of the room. Scent is the one part of the stay that travels, and it brings back a memory faster than any photograph.
04 Approach
One language. Three landscapes.
Rough limestone, weathered larch, clay and lake-worn stone. Every texture and tone is drawn from the ground the properties stand on: nothing invented, nothing added that isn't already there. Design principle: the room stays quiet, and the object doesn't ask to be noticed.
05 Process
From a briefing to a proposal on the table.
- briefing notes01
Briefing
First conversations and what the resort wanted.
- brand study02
Brand & visual study
Mission, values, tone, photography, typography.
- competitor analysis03
Market research
Competitors and their merchandise, side by side.
04Visual inspiration
Layered textures, different stones, long pines.
05Material research
What's possible in ceramics, concrete, glass and diffusers.
06Drafts
Vessel sketches and first mockups.
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Proposal deck
Why, approach, 3 vessels, 3 scents.
- scent producer brief08
Brief to the perfumer
The scent directions translated for the fragrance producer.
06 Three vessel directions
Same family, three materials from the same landscape.
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Born from Clay
Layered like the mountains, reinterpreted in clay. Colour is the only variable: stone, fertile earth and pine green, without leaving the family silhouette.
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Born from Stone
Hand-cast, ridged concrete with a texture that reads like rock. Its roughness meets the softness of candlelight; mantra and logo engraved underneath.
07 Three scent directions
Not geography. A choice.
Each direction answers a different part of the resort's world: not tied to one property, but to a role.
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Woody & Earthy
The interior. Vetiver, hinoki and warm mineral depth, for spaces where the architecture is the star.
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Alpine & Fresh
The exterior. Juniper, cypress and aromatic herbs: air, not room. For terraces and entrances.
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Calm & Wellness
The ritual. Sandalwood, lavender and clean musk, for spa, bath and slowness.
The collection
Made to age, not to be replaced.
08 Where it stands
Ongoing.
[Your words: e.g. the proposal was presented, the client chose a direction, the fragrances are in development with the perfumer.]