OLDER Studio presents Buclicolo A cabinet and a painting at Alcova Milano, 2024. “Never try to convey your idea to the audience. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it,” once said Andrei Tarkovsky.
Buclicolo arrives from ombelico (Italian for belly button) and is a mispronunciation of that word. Buclicolo functions as a large cabinet with five shelves for storage and as a canvas for a painting made by the two founders of OLDER Letizia Caramia and Morten Thuesen.

As painting is an open-ended creative process that contains the ability to never stop,
Buclicolo is so too, a sort of infinite cycle, a never-ending motif if you want. This creative process has been documented in 4 small films, shot on location, in the legendary STUDIO LEONE TOMMASI in Pietrasanta, Tuscany by photographer Nicola Gnesi and Morten Thuesen whilst Letizia Caramia is painting the cabinet in real-time. The shape of the cabinet is a rounded pyramid, the name Buclicolo refers to the centre and side holes in the cabinet. This piece was originally designed for storage of uniforms and homeware needs, but it also works as a painting, blurring the lines between design and figurative art, using a functional design as a canvas for a painting. The motif is made of blue clouds on an eggshell white base, creating a cluster of patterns for the viewer, which is open to interpretation. The painting has been made and filmed live on set.

OLDER Studio’s designs are always centred around a personal need, for the private life of the founders, or in the daily life in the studio, which means that they only release material when they feel there is a necessity: no need, no object.