AMO for Albers x Mutina
The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation is the institution dedicated to preserving and promoting the artistic legacy of two central figures of twentieth-century modernism—pioneers in the exploration of colour, form and perception. From its dialogue with Mutina comes Homage to the Square, a new ceramic surface collection inspired by Josef Albers’s iconic painting series.
The collection will be presented during Milan Design Week 2026 at Casa Mutina Milano. Josef Albers devoted much of his research to the interaction of colours, studying their variations through rigorous and repetitive geometric structures. According to the artist, colour is never isolated, but lives and changes in relation to its context. “In mathematics, one plus one plus one equals three,” he used to say, “but in art it equals three or more.”
The whole is greater than the sum of its individual parts, because these, in dialogue with one another, generate unexpected effects. Mutina reinterprets this theory, transforming ceramic surfaces into dynamic fields of chromatic interaction. The collection draws inspiration from the hues of the celebrated Homage to the Square series—tones that shift and transform with light, compositional rhythm and context.
Form, colour and material coexist within an open system, in which each element gains meaning in relation to the others.This affinity also extends to a shared philosophy of living. As evidenced by images of the spaces inhabited by Josef and Anni Albers, the essential is never about subtraction, but about precision. The collection reflects this idea, translating ceramic material into a silent yet powerful presence, capable of responding to the specific needs of each context.
Homage to the Square is therefore more than a collection—it is an exercise in resonance, a tribute to a method and a way of thinking that continues to speak to the present. A project that intertwines art and design through the use of colour and the mysteries of its perception.