SOLIS Project · Denise Lombardi, Home designer
The sun, inside every space.
A furnishing project by Denise Lombardi that brings the figurative energy of the sun into living spaces. Four editions, four places, the same energy.
The concept
The sun has always been the symbol of beginnings: it brings warmth, rhythm and renewal. In every culture, from the first carvings in stone to the rose windows of cathedrals, people have drawn it to keep it close. It is an ancient image, one we recognise before we even think about it.
The shapes around us speak in silence. A sign that opens from the centre outwards recalls morning light, warmth, energy spreading out; the eye rests on it and the room seems to breathe differently. It is the dialogue, often unconscious, between those who inhabit a space and the objects they choose to live with.
This is where SOLIS begins. Denise Lombardi translates the sun into an essential sign, where the geometry of the rays meets the softness of natural forms. It is not simply a decorative object: it is a point of light that gives character to a wall and, day after day, shapes the way a space is lived in.
The editions
SOLIS · Office Edition
Soft light for the workspace.
The edition designed for places of work. A bright sun emerging from the wall with soft, diffused light, bringing warmth to spaces often dominated by rigid lines and neutral surfaces.
Where it lives
Professional studios and executive offices · Meeting rooms and coworking · Receptions · Home offices and reading corners
SOLIS · Outdoor Edition
Many suns, one harmony.
SOLIS goes outdoors. Three suns of different sizes to arrange freely on the wall: a group that reads as a single sign, giving each element room to breathe.
Three suns in golden ratio
| Small sun | Ø 24 cm |
| Medium sun | Ø 39 cm approx. |
| Large sun | Ø 63 cm approx. |
Each size comes from the previous one multiplied by the golden number (1.618): the same proportion found in the spirals of shells and the seeds of sunflowers. This is why the composition stays balanced in any arrangement.
Where it lives
Exterior walls, façades and courtyards · Patios, verandas and pergolas · Gardens, terraces and poolsides
SOLIS · Materica Edition
The sun that keeps time.
The most sculptural edition. A dark, solid disc surrounded by a crown of rays that seems to hold back a light coming from behind, like the moment the moon passes in front of the sun.
Eclissi is a working wall clock. Its slender hands glide over the central disc with no numbers or markers: time is read from their position, as on a sundial, leaving the stage to the form.
Where it lives
Living rooms and feature walls · Entrances · Studies and libraries · Lobbies, restaurants and hospitality
SOLIS · Home Edition
The sun seen from above.
The SOLIS sign leaves the wall and becomes a surface. A white sun on natural wood legs, to use as a side table by the sofa or as a bedside table.
Where it lives
Bedrooms · Living rooms · Reading corners · Entrances
Zenit · side table or bedside table
The top follows the design of the whole collection: straight points and wavy flames around a solid centre, wide enough for a lamp, a book, a glass of water.
The white top and the light wood legs make it feel light by the bed as well as next to the sofa. Sizes are defined on request, together with the Designer.
The sign
Every SOLIS sun comes from the same drawing. Sixteen rays start from the centre and rest on three concentric circles, inside a square that sets their proportions.
Eight rays are straight points, drawn with geometric rigour; between them opens a wavy flame, free like moving light. The character of the whole collection comes from this alternation of order and movement.
The same sign changes material, size and place: it becomes light in the office with Aura, multiplies on the outside wall with Costellazione, keeps time with Eclissi, becomes a surface with Zenit.
The original piece
The one-of-a-kind wooden piece the collection grew from. Golden proportions, handmade: Denise Lombardi's first sun, from which every SOLIS edition took shape.
See the piece on Galleria1957 →Made to order
Every SOLIS piece is made to order. Size, finish and light are defined together with the Designer, according to the space it is meant for.
