Let’s start from the roots, how does your story begin?
V: From a passion and inspiration, both for and from Mother Nature.
How does nature inspire your projects and lifestyle?
V: By teaching me the natural and essential rhythms, waits, actions, and pauses. In its simplicity and naturalness, free from architectural superstructures and artifices.
If you could be the protagonist of a film, which one would you choose?
F: I would like to be Chance, the gardener, in Hal Ashby’s film “Being There.
If your project were music, what track would it be?
V: Into my Arms by Nick Cave
F: Nel cielo e nelle altre cose mute by Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, from the album “…di Terra” from 1978.
Which work of art/design object would you place at the center of an exhibition?
V: The Samara of a Maple tree, elegant, perfectly sculpted, an engineering marvel and bearer of life.
What does Avant gardening mean to you?
V: The expression of the ability to create a pleasant natural environment that also supports its own ecosystem, always respecting the available natural resources. A garden aware of the true protagonist: nature.
F: A garden with solid foundations, well-rooted, cultured, having studied the classics, and thus prepared to generate not only many beautiful flowers for the joy of bees and butterflies but also equipped to ensure comfort and proper “therapies” for humans.
Five words for you closely related to the concept of earth (soil).
V: Water, fertility, Mother, nature, environment.
Bio
Vaprio Zanoni, son of nurserymen and gardeners, started working in the green sector at 18, initially focusing on installations and then on growing ornamental plants. Later, he established gardening companies through which he completed various green works: restoration of historic gardens, public and private gardens and parks, terraces and rooftop gardens, green walls, and indoor and temporary installations. He collaborates as a consultant with many architectural and landscape design firms.
Furio Ferri was born in Viterbo in the mid-20th century. Always convinced he could change the world through art, at 20, he abandoned canvases and brushes for pencils and drafting tables. He spent his early professional years designing shop and restaurant interiors, exhibition stands at major trade events, and furniture design. Approaching maturity, he decided to change cities, regions, and interests: he fell in love with a Lombard woman and with her, he began the non-profit association Animum Ludendo Coles, installing in public areas across Italy large and traditional path games, painted, sculpted in stone, or made from other materials. He keeps playing because “play cultivates the soul”
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