MILAN, EARLY AFTERNOON.
The door opens into a studio that feels lived in — not in a domestic sense, but in the way of an active mind. Material samples line the walls, sketches are scattered across the desk, and recognisable prototypes on the shelves speak to Peri’s career. Light moves through the room like a second presence, revealing the layers of an ongoing process. This is not a showroom. It is a place where thinking takes shape.
At the centre of the table sits Chiaro — a curved, minimal form designed to hold NOON ALL DAY’s daily supplement. It is the first ritual object created in collaboration with the brand. Calm but not passive, it carries a quiet presence, drawing attention without ever demanding it.
WHAT MAKES AN OBJECT WORTHY OF RITUAL?
“It needs to disappear a little,” Peri says. “Not physically, but emotionally. It should let you slow down without telling you to. That’s the work I’m interested in.”
Chiaro is quiet. There is no attempt to explain itself. The lid closes slowly, creating a vacuum within. The gesture is smooth, the action satisfying.
“That gesture is considered,” he says. “It’s not about closing something forcefully. It’s about letting it come to rest. The way the lid settles — that’s what makes it feel different.”
Inspired by noon, the form captures a moment of equilibrium, when light is at its most direct and the day appears to pause. Weighted and composed, the curve gathers illumination gently. It seems to hold the sun itself, a light pool — the pulse of midday suspended. Chiaro does not imitate the sun. It recalls the condition of light at its fullest.
“I didn’t want the object to reference the sun literally. It’s more about the memory of the sun. The way light is could literally be held, suspended. The way that shadows recede and clarity of light is all that is left."
HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN A FORM IS FINISHED?
“When nothing more needs to be explained,” he says. “when the piece begins to speak on its own. Quietly, but clearly.”
There is something architectural in the way he describes light, edges, and tension. Even at its smallest scale, Peri’s work follows the same logic: remove until something true remains. With object 01, the scale is intimate, but the thinking is large.
Each piece is made to order and made by hand, with the pace and attention it deserves.
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