Design In Copenhagen, Secolo and TABLEAU Make Us Draw with Our Eyes Closed
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In Copenhagen, Secolo and TABLEAU Make Us Draw with Our Eyes Closed

From 10 to 12 June, during 3daysofdesign, TABLEAU Gallery hosts The Drawing Room: a new immersive installation that evolves the collaboration begun at Milan Design Week 2026
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Anna Frattini

A sofa ten metres long, walls covered in flowers drawn without looking, a gallery that becomes a living room. Secolo and TABLEAU return together in Copenhagen with The Drawing Room, presented as part of 3daysofdesign 2026 at TABLEAU Gallery in Vimmelskaftet, from 10 to 12 June.

The project is the direct evolution of Soft Matters, the collaboration launched during Milan Design Week 2026, where Trace — the sofa designed by TABLEAU for Secolo — was presented for the first time. In Copenhagen, Trace returns in a monumental version: Trace Modular, a modular system that can reach eight to ten metres in length, whose organic and enveloping forms occupy the heart of the gallery. Over the three days, the configuration will be continuously rearranged, turning the installation into a dynamic exercise in the relationship between body, object, and space.

The walls of the main room are entirely covered in hand-drawn floral motifs made using the blind drawing technique — drawing with eyes closed, entrusting the mark to instinct, without control or correction. The title The Drawing Room plays on this double meaning: drawing as immediate gesture, and the drawing room as a living space for encounter and conviviality. Visitors are invited to sit, move, and become an integral part of the installation itself.

Alongside Trace Modular, the space features a selection of Secolo products previously shown in Milan: the Plumea armchair, Residual floor lamps, and the Erwin, Pingu, and Wax side tables with their TABLEAU floral takeovers, as well as brand best sellers including the Lalea lounge chair and the Romo coffee table. A second, more intimate room presents Trace Island in a red upholstery, alongside new pieces including Spica, Pingu X, and Kora X.

With The Drawing Room, Secolo and TABLEAU consolidate a collaboration rooted in the cross-contamination of design, art, and creative process — one in which the spontaneity of gesture and formal rigour do not exclude each other, but seek each other out.

ph. Adam Katz Sinding

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Written by Anna Frattini

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