Dedar unveils an expanded Versi Liberi collection at Milan Design Week, where textiles, architecture and artistic process converge in an immersive spatial experience.
Italian textile company Dedar, has expanded the Versi Liberi collection to market the occasion of Milan Design Week 2026: alongside the new designs and new colour and material combinations for the placed motifs for backrests and seats, large ready-made panels for curtain use are also introduced. The collection will be presented during Milan Design Week at Via Lazzaretto 15.
In the Versi Liberi collection, the uniqueness of textile customisation encounters the immediacy of a ready-made product. The collection of 70 x 90 cm panels reinvents the traditional theme of placed motifs, combining their refinement and expressive vigour and bringing them into the contemporary world. In the tradition that flourished between the 17th and 19th centuries, dining room chairs acquired the same narrative function as a tapestry; their sequence told a figurative story that was mobile and complex. In the pieces of the Versi Liberi collection, the same narrative logic is reinterpreted in a contemporary key and applied to semi-figurative and abstract designs.
Dedar’s expanded the Versi Liberi collection | Image credit: Dedar
In this way, a set of chairs recounts a dynamic story heavily tinged with personalisation, comprising slight shifts in the patterns, displacements, changes in distances and arrangements. A lively jam session comes to life, ready to embrace ever new interpretations. Thanks to elaborate embroidery and printing techniques, which confer a marked three-dimensionality, Versi Liberi fabrics give interiors a strong identity, with new designs on ground fabrics from the
Dedar collection.
For 2026, Dedar has pursued and amplified this research, with a wider product offering and new horizons. Within this evolution, in the already established line of Versi Liberi for backrests and seats in the dimensions of 70 x 90 cm format three newly presented designs explore different expressive directions: Hillevi, between abstraction and naturalism; Danae, with an evanescent, Chagall-like gesture; and Melusine, graphic and hypnotic. In addition to the new designs, variations on the Ad Astra, Riptide, and Yume themes are also presented.
Dedar’s expanded the Versi Liberi collection | Image credit: Dedar
The new varieties of placed motifs are accompanied by the new large-scale Versi Liberi panels for curtain use. Through this new format, Versi Liberi broadens its visual scope and revisits the idea of flounce fabrics, bringing it decisively into the contemporary context.
Each of these large panels (370 x 140 cm) combines two fabrics from the collection to create a wide expanse of colour. A special faux embroidery technique provides the joining stitch between them. On the cusp between couture and spontaneity, vibrating with colour and matter, these large panels celebrate the attention paid by deconstruction fashion designers to the manufacturing process. At the same time, thanks to their all-embracing nature, they hark back to Robert Ryman’s White Paintings or the intensity of Mark Rothko.
Dedar’s expanded the Versi Liberi collection | Image credit: Dedar
As large abstract canvases steeped in an architectural spirit, the six articles being presented are pairings of classical Dedar plains, such as A Perfect Flower, Music, Queneau, Karakorum and Chatwin. These pairings of colours, nuances, textures, and materials entertain impassioned dialogues. Each piece enables a definition of the horizon line and sewing method, either traditional with hems or semi-finished with selvedge on view, to bring a new, unfettered, and assertive slant to interior design projects.
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“With Versi Liberi, I have combined materials differing in nature, texture, and colour through a gesture of rapid assembly, allowing the process itself to determine their form. I wanted the ornamental function of the panels to free itself from any affectation and assume an essential, contemporary dimension,” commented Raffaele Fabrizio.
Both the placed fabrics, and the extra-large panels for use as curtains that are now being launched, are faithful to the early intuition of the Versi Liberi. Great moments of the textile tradition – the placed motifs for seating, the flounce – break free from any form of affectation, to become phrases of a contemporary language able to give any interior project a distinctive identity. They combine practicality with a subtle tension between “customised” and “ready-made”, paving the way to personal and instinctive interpretations.
The Collection can be viewed at Via Lazzaretto, 15 – Milan
Tuesday 21st April 2026, from 10am to 4pm
Wednesday 22nd to Saturday 25th April 2026, from 10am to 7pm
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