Elisa Ossino and Josephine Akvama Hoffmeyer, creative directors and founders of H+O, reveal their apartment installation, Perfect Darkness, during Milan Design Week 2019. 

Born out of creativity and curiosity, Perfect Darkness is a venue where the past meets the future, where silence meets sound, and where darkness meets light. Without one, the other would not exist. By balancing the choice of materials, colours, and shapes, the essential becomes obvious and the two designers create a feeling of home.

The quintessential feature of this restructuring project is the tile, featured in every room of the space. The other central feature of the project is the use of geometric patterns running through various rooms with variations created by the use of different formats, carefully curated furniture and tailor-made furnishings.

The choice of colours, in collaboration with File Under Pop, emphasises the vibration of light highlighting the sequence of environments in a continuous transition from darker to brighter spaces. All rooms, characterised by the presence of patterns, colours, lights and sounds, are conceived as individual installations in a process of spatial abstraction.