DDN - November 2025
Design Diffusion News features Aldilà, a collectible design piece created by Francesco Meneghello with the master perfumer Spyros Drosopoulos for WE DON’T DESIGN, in the Mood & Vibes section of its November 2025 issue.
Design Diffusion News features Aldilà in its Mood & Vibes section. The facing page is given to the Lee Miller retrospective at Tate Britain. In the 1920s the American photographer went from model to Man Ray’s collaborator, and later to war reporter, moving between opposing worlds with an independent, visionary eye.
The pairing suggests a precise reading. Lee Miller used photography to free the gaze from logic, traversing fashion, Surrealism and reportage with the same attitude. Rêverie, the visual project curated by the Milan-based photographer Thomas Pagani for WE DON’T DESIGN, applies a similar logic of subtraction, freeing collectible pieces from the tyranny of function and recasting them as pure visual thought. The two practices mirror each other in their use of the image as a tool of enquiry, tracing paths that elude any category.
The title chosen by the journalist Paola Molteni, ‘Charon, do not be vexed’, quotes the third canto of Dante’s Inferno. The project’s Dantean framework shapes its narrative, with nine spheres for the nine circles and 333 centilitres as a reference to the numerology of three. This symbolic code positions Aldilà as a cultural intervention.
