Dedar Expands the Versi Liberi Collection

On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2026, the Italian textile company Dedar expands the Versi Liberi collection. Starting from April 21, the fabrics will be presented at Via Lazzaretto 15.

In the Versi Liberi collection, the uniqueness of textile customisation encounters the immediacy of a ready-made product. The collection of 70 x 90 cm panels emphatically reinvents the traditional theme of placed motifs, combining their refinement and expressive vigour and bringing them into the contemporary world.

In the tradition that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries, dining room chairs acquired the same narrative function as a tapestry; their sequence told a figurative story that was mobile and complex. In the pieces of the Versi Liberi collection, 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 dynamic story heavily tinged with personalisation, comprising slight shifts in the patterns, displacements, changes in distances and arrangements. A lively jam session comes to life, ready to embrace ever new interpretations.

Thanks to elaborate embroidery and printing techniques, which confer a marked three-dimensionality, Versi Liberi fabrics give interiors a strong identity, with new designs on ground fabrics from the Dedar collection.

For 2026, Dedar has pursued and amplified this research, with a wider product offering and new horizons.

Within this evolution, in the already established line of Versi Liberi for backrests and seats in the dimensions of 70 x 90 cm format three newly presented designs explore different expressive directions: Hillevi, between abstraction and naturalism; Danae, with an evanescent, Chagall-like gesture; and Melusine, graphic and hypnotic. In addition to the new designs, variations on the Ad Astra, Riptide, and Yume themes are also presented.

The new varieties of placed motifs are accompanied by the new large-scale Versi Liberi panels for curtain use. Through this new format, Versi Liberi broadens its visual scope and revisits the idea of flounce fabrics, bringing it decisively into the contemporary context.

Each of these large panels (370 x 140 cm) combines two fabrics from the collection to create a wide expanse of colour. A special faux embroidery technique provides the joining stitch between them. On the cusp between couture and spontaneity, vibrating with colour and matter, these large panels celebrate the attention paid by deconstruction fashion designers to the manufacturing process. At the same time, thanks to their all-embracing nature, they hark back to Robert Ryman’s White Paintings or the intensity of Mark Rothko.

As large abstract canvases steeped in an architectural spirit, the six articles being presented are pairings of classical Dedar plains, such as A Perfect Flower, Music, Queneau, Karakorum and Chatwin. These pairings of colours, nuances, textures, and materials entertain impassioned dialogues. Each piece enables a definition of the horizon line and sewing method, either traditional with hems or semi-finished with selvedge on view, to bring a new, unfettered, and assertive slant to interior design projects.

“With Versi Liberi, I have combined materials differing in nature, texture, and colour through a gesture of rapid assembly, allowing the process itself to determine their form. I wanted the ornamental function of the panels to free itself from any affectation and assume an essential, contemporary dimension,” concludes Raffaele Fabrizio.

Both the placed fabrics, and the extra-large panels for use as curtains that are now being launched, are faithful to the early intuition of the Versi Liberi. Great moments of the textile tradition – the placed motifs for seating, the flounce – break free from any form of affectation, to become phrases of a contemporary language able to give any interior project a distinctive identity. They combine practicality with a subtle tension between “customised” and “ready-made”, paving the way to personal and instinctive interpretations.

Via Lazzaretto, 15 – Milan
– Tuesday 21st April 2026 – From 10am to 4pm
– From Wednesday 22nd to Saturday 25th April 2026 – From 10am to 7pm

Versi Liberi: Embroidered and printed placed motifs

Yume: Embroidered ringlets on a silk bourette

Soft white clouds float in a land of dreams. They consist of plump wool ringlets emerging from the raffia and linen ground Didgeridoo and the silk bourette Topinambour, in a voluminous and embracing tangle. The resulting visual and tactile contrast is one of harmony: the textural grounds embrace the softness of the matt wool yarn. The embroidery, executed on the back of the fabric in ringlet stitch, is the fruit of refined and expert craftsmanship, requiring time and attention, to achieve a result that is always unique.

Melusine: Abstract embroideries on textural panama weaves

A hypnotic chant animates natural forms that dance with slinky and uninterrupted movement. A fringe, sometimes thick and tousled, at other times compact and softly caressing, traces three-dimensional branches on the linen panama weave Minima Mirabilia, to evoke the fractured dynamism of New York’s street art. Embroidered in velvet stitch, the motif stems from the encounter between an almost mechanical precision and a profound artisanal sensitivity, which require time, dedication and attention to achieve an unrepeatable result.

Parola: Minimalist calligraphies

Soft graphic strokes capture the essence of thought and words, in an oriental calligraphic motif, in which the meaning depends on the interpretation. A soft three-dimensional silk shape delineates a compact and meticulously embroidered fringe, while the voids of the pure virgin wool ground of Chapeau confer breathing space to the composition: the gestural purity and linear precision arouse emotion. The harmonious contrast is a joy for the eye and hand: the woolly mattness of the ground embraces the lustrous design. The embroidery, executed from the back of the fabric using the velvet stitch technique, is the fruit of mechanical precision and artisanal sensitivity, requiring time and attention for a result that is always unique.

Hillevi: Pictorial embroideries on velvet

Snowy alpine peaks, a frozen waterfall, the silent force of a strong wind. Soft curvilinear shapes compose a pattern of oriental and Art Deco influences. Consisting of over 60,000 point rentré stitches, the embroidered motifs are defined by a combination of two yarns, one matt and the other more luminous, which fade into each other to create pictorial depth. A work of meticulous precision, the motif is traced on the warm and slightly melange ground of Alpaca Alto or on that of Serene Splendour with its thick pile, generating a soft bas relief effect in which the velvet embraces and defines the contours.

Danae: Impalpable embroideries

Two impalpable spirits seem to be on the verge of taking flight: their forms fade out, their contours dissolve. The embroidery, permeated by Chagallian suggestions, takes a winding course, guided by a subtle line that never loses control of detail. Consisting of over 40,000 stitches executed in a metallic thread, the embroidered motifs stand out clearly against the textural and irregular ground of Aristotele or merge harmoniously with Millais, a soft panama weave with a woolly spirit. The density of the embroidery varies moderately: in some places, the yarns overlap to create more intense and three-dimensional areas; in others, they thin out to reveal the textile surface, in a manner that is balanced between visual lightness and tactile depth.

Riptide: Wavy embroideries

A flowing uninterrupted gesture, similar to thick paint vigorously poured by an artist onto a canvas: the creative impetus leaves its vivid and vibrant mark. The double Cornely embroidery is intertwined with fourteen metres of trimming applied to Aristotele, a luminous and textural fabric, and on Chapeau, a sartorial pure virgin wool cloth that is matt and woolly. Fine black, white and orange lines, together with subtle metallic glints, embellish the fabrics. Thanks to skilled artisanal savoir-faire, the start and finish of this precious cordonnet is concealed, while three-dimensional effects and delicate tonal variations enliven the surface.

Ad Astra: Astral embroideries

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 cordonnet stitches, the threedimensional embroidery embellishes the textural grounds of Didgeridoo technical raffia or Millais wool and linen.

Versi Liberi: Large ready-made panels

A large abstract canvas of vast scope takes shape by combining two fabrics of the collection, thanks to a special technique of false embroidery. The two superimposed fabrics create a fusion of colour and matter with a velvety hand-feel, making each piece unique. On the cusp between couture and spontaneity, they celebrate the attention paid by deconstruction fashion designers to the manufacturing process and the chromatic intensity of Rothko’s works.

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