LA-based Willow delves into the deep cuts of the Superstudio-inspired design trend with a musically inspired tiled audio system collection.

If you even have a hangnail on the pulse of decor trends the last several years, you’ve probably noticed the reemergence of plain field tiling treatments escaping the prescribed trappings of the kitchen and bathroom to sneak into every surface and corner of the home. Tiles can be found unironically adorning seemingly everything these days, from side tables to coffee tables to lighting, and now for the musically-inclined, a hi-fi turntable stand.
Operating under the moniker Willow, Los Angeles-based designer Gretta Solie has been utilizing the affordable and readily available material with confidence, imparting a small catalog of furnishings and accessories with a look that can be traced to the late 1960s/early 1970s efforts of influential Italian architectural firm, Superstudio.
In its more colorful and pastel iterations, the reemergence of tiled furniture often adopts a quasi-nostalgia evocative of the 2010s vaporwave aesthetic. But as utilized by Solie in black and red for the Amore Mio collection, the tiling exhibits a more sensual Italo disco vibe that seemingly oozes from the hard surfaces.
Tile does make wiping any errant red sauce clean up a simple task.
Fashioned as a collaborative effort between Willow and musical artist Bad Nonno (aka Joey Francis), Amore Mio arrives as a simultaneous furniture drop intended t...