SOCCHIUSA / AJAR

For Salone del Mobile 2026, AR.CH.IT Luca Cipelletti presents Socchiusa / Ajar, a new door project for the exhibition-proposal Porte at Galleria Rossana Orlandi, Via Matteo Bandello in Milan, from 19 April.
Socchiusa / Ajar follows on from the studio’s previous contributions to bespoke design: XYZ, a system of solid-wood tables and consoles presented at the 2018 Salone, and C_Zero, a reinforced-concrete shelving system presented at Design Miami Basel 2019, both with Galleria Giustini/Stagetti.
The door attempts to subvert the logic of the modern flush doorframe, which in recent years has made it possible to almost cancel doors within walls, making them invisible, and so blurring their symbolic and architectural value.
Socchiusa / Ajar merges the doorframe and the wall-panel, shadow and surface; it does so with a gesture – a three-dimensional subtraction, not merely an optical effect – that bends the wall, interrupting its monotony and continuity, restoring to the door its presence and value.
Renaissance Italian cabinetry, with its intarsia that transforms two dimensions into three, emphasises thresholds, portals are evident: doors show themselves. They indicate entrance and exit, open and closed, visible and invisible; they are perceived as a passage, a threshold, as if they were essentially always ajar.
These are the qualities which Ajar restores with a design and a structure that can be adapted for specific needs: in any size and colour, with different woods, materials, surfaces and finishes, and with any handle or closing system.
The concept is clear; the character is up to you.