Monica Armani

Monica Armani is an architect and designer based in Milan. She trained in her family's studio, where detail became the starting point of every project, an approach she later set out in her manifesto "Design in Molecules": shape, function and technology refined together until they reach balance. For Varaschin she designed EMMA, a configurable outdoor family built on powder-coated aluminium frames with a hand-woven rope backrest knotted directly onto the structure. The weave recalls the company's origins in rattan and wicker, while the range extends from dining chairs and bergères to sofas, daybeds and a suspended nest. EMMA CROSS develops the same language in open, enveloping forms: a sunbed, a compact daybed, a lounge armchair and a dining armchair whose outline draws on the corolla of a flower.