Dedar’s Versi Liberi Collection: Combining Refinement and Expressive Vigour

With Versi Liberi, the refined customisation of “custom made” encounters the immediacy of “ready-made”.

The Dedar offering of placed motifs for backrests, seating and cushions facilitates the introduction of a highly impacting expressive element to interior projects. A classic of the textile tradition has been radically reinvented to become a contemporary icon of style.

The Versi Liberi fabrics for backrests and seats come in pieces measuring 70 x 90 cm. They present exclusive new designs executed in embroidery or complex printing techniques on textural grounds from the Dedar collection. Poised between abstract motifs, figurative references, and subtle astral evocations, they lend themselves to the interpretations and uses dictated by personal flair and inspirations. By responding to the requirements of each interior design project, they enable it to express a new language. In terms of performance, they are inspired by the principle of practicality, ensuring peace of mind in normal conditions of use.

Versi Liberi enables the creation of coordinated chairs, armchairs and other furnishing elements in a way that is simple yet endowed with a strong personality. It emphatically reinvents the traditional textile genre of the placed motif, by combining its refinement and expressive vigour, while inviting it to join the contemporary design scene. In the flowery tradition in vogue from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries, the chairs of a room played the same narrative role as a tapestry; their sequence revealed a mobile and detailed illustrated story. In the pieces of Versi Liberi, the same narrative logic is reinterpreted in a contemporary key and applied to semi-figurative and abstract designs. In this way, a set of chairs recounts a story packed with movement and strongly imbued with personalisation, amidst slightly staggered motifs, repositioning, changes of distance and arrangements. Hence the start of a lively little jam session, ready to embrace ever new interpretations.

Thanks to elaborate embroidery and printing techniques, which confer a pronounced three-dimensionality, the fabrics of Versi Liberi add great character to the interior décor project. Personalisation and an intense expressive power create great energy. Even the choice of just a few pieces enables a special and unmistakable mood to pervade the interior. The fabric will transform any piece of furniture: on the Louis XVI armchair it grafts a note of modernity; when used on a piece of contemporary design, a special touch will come to the fore, making it quite unique.

Driven by Dedar’s vocation for discovery and interchange, a walk down memory lane has led to a most contemporary idea. The certainty of today’s savoir-faire and manufacturing precision supports a mingling of materials, knowhow, and diversified references. A personality of modern inspiration and a profound textile expertise, the art of embroidery and the chromatic intensity of printing come together in an “intimate blend”. These fabrics interpret the artistic gesture and suggest new perspectives; ever changing and precious variations generate interiors of unmistakable taste.

Parola: Minimalist Calligraphy on Raffia

Soft graphic strokes capture the essence of thought and words in an oriental calligraphic motif. Gentle three-dimensional shapes in wool form a compact fringe embroidered with meticulous care, while the empty spaces of the Didgeridoo raffia and linen ground confer breathing space to the entire composition. The visual contrast is harmonious: the natural luminosity of the ground embraces the matt wooliness of the motif. The embroidery, executed using the velvet stitch technique, is fruit of mechanical precision and an artisanal sensitivity requiring time and great care for a result that is always unique. Used in different directions or off-center, the motif lends itself to free interpretations for backrests, decorative seating applications and cushions.

Yume: Ringlets Embroidered on Raffia

Soft white clouds float in a land of dreams. They are lavish wool curls that surface on a raffia and linen ground, that of Didgeridoo, in a billowing, embracing tangle. A harmonious contrast delights the eye and hand: the luminosity of textural raffia embraces the softness of matt wool yarn. The embroidery, executed on the back of the fabric using the curl stitch technique, is fruit of refined artisanal skill, requiring time and great care for a result that is always unique. Used in different directions or off-center, it is ideal for backrests and cushions and lends itself to bolder applications for decorative seating.

Campo Dei Fiori: Vibrant Strokes of Colour on Textural Weave

Rapid and colourful brushstrokes sweetly animate an abstract field of flowers: the vibrant strokes capture the artist’s spontaneous gesture, leaving a vivid trace on the canvas. As they gradually dissolve away from the dense center, the embroidered motif of wavy lines in different thicknesses and directions express themselves freely on the textural and luminous ground of Aristotele. The 60,000 random stitches overlap, mixing and varying in intensity five vivid colours in a palette of soft and contrasting shades. Used in different directions or off-center, the motif lends itself to free interpretations for backrests, decorative seating applications and cushions.

Ad Astra: Stellar Embroidery on Raffia

On gazing at the celestial vault: a glimpse of infinity provokes marvel and vertigo. Essential lines form an abstract motif, while embarking on an unexpected course. With over 50,000 cord embroidery stitches, this highly three-dimensional embroidery embellishes the textural raffia ground of Didgeridoo, while enhancing the nuances of green played out between vivid and deep colour tones. Used in different directions or off-centre, the motif lends itself to free interpretations for backrests, decorative seating applications and cushions.

Riptide: Wavy Embroidery on Textural Weave

A flowing uninterrupted gesture, like the dense paint the artist vigorously pours onto the canvas: the creative impetus leaves a vivid and vibrant mark. The double embroidery interlaces with fourteen metres of trimming which, using the Cornely technique, is applied to Aristotele, a luminous and textural fabric enhanced by fine white lines. The skilled handiwork of the expert artisans ensures that the start and finish of the precious embroidery is cleverly concealed, while three-dimensional effects and delicate mottling animate the surface. Used in different directions or off-centre, the motif lends itself to free interpretations for backrests, decorative seating applications and cushions.

Nebula: Flock Constellation on Textural Weave

A silent nebula whispers in space, held in an embrace of the blackest dust: enraptured, the eye turns to the dancing heavens. A wash of velvety micro flock is applied to the textural and uneven ground of Aristotele, thanks to the meticulous artisanal technique of screen printing. The contrast is accentuated between the opacity of the pigment that stands out in relief on the ground of natural tones, whose weave confers a subtle three-dimensionality to the surface. Used in different directions or off-centre, the motif lends itself to free interpretations for backrests, decorative seating applications and cushions.

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