At EDIT Napoli 2026, from 9 to 11 October at La Santissima, Antonio Di Maro designs “Base Camp” for Magliocco Tappeti: a fabric canopy, seven rugs rolled up like luggage and low poufs that present the rug as architecture.
A low canopy of fabric, nine wooden poles, seven rolled-up rugs leaning against the walls like luggage: at EDIT Napoli 2026 Antonio Di Maro designs “Base Camp” for Magliocco Tappeti, an installation that uses the rug to build a space without raising a single wall.
For the eighth edition of the editorial design fair, from 9 to 11 October at La Santissima, Magliocco Tappeti returns to EDIT Napoli 2026 with a project that shifts the brand’s research from the product to the act of dwelling. Last year the Il Mio Mediterraneo collection told the story of the Mediterranean through its cultural, natural and artistic nuances. This year the narrative changes scale: no longer a territory to describe, but a place in which to stop.
The installation is called “Base Camp” and is designed by Antonio Di Maro, the Neapolitan architect who has been the brand’s creative director since 2025. The project’s subtitle already reads like a statement of method: the desert as home, the rug as architecture.
Base Camp: the gesture of laying a rug on the ground
The starting point is a gesture as old as dwelling itself: laying a rug on the ground and turning a place of passage, the desert, into a space to live in. Di Maro, however, does not reconstruct a camp. What interests him is the suspended time that runs through it, the pause between one stretch of the journey and the next, when the rug stops being an object and becomes a surface, a boundary, the perimeter of a genuine piece of architecture.
In room 22 of EDIT Napoli, a low canopy of fabric held up by nine wooden poles shelters a floor that changes nature: from the stone of a Neapolitan palazzo to a soft, warm, patterned surface. Seven rolled-up rugs lean against the walls like luggage. They speak of a journey already made and one still to come.
No chairs: low poufs, a lantern, a tray
At the centre of the room the installation does away with conventional seating. In its place are low poufs that bring the body closer to the ground and make the experience more intimate and shared. A lantern and a tray complete the scene, evoking a moment of rest, welcome and conviviality.
This is where the project shows its intelligence. Lowering the centre of gravity of a space changes the way we look at it: the rug is no longer something we walk over without thinking, but the plane on which we sit, lean and talk. The editors see in this choice a thread linking “Base Camp” to Di Maro’s research into neuroarchitecture, that is, into how forms, materials and posture affect the wellbeing of the people who inhabit a space.
Naples as an oasis, between arrivals and departures
The choice of city is not neutral. Naples, traditionally a place of arrivals, exchanges and cross-pollination, becomes in the project’s imagination the oasis where the journey finds a new destination. “Base Camp” is a temporary threshold between movement and permanence: a place to stop, to meet and to feel at home. And then to set off again.
EDIT Napoli 2026: where to see the installation
EDIT Napoli 2026 runs from 9 to 11 October, from 10am to 7pm. The heart of the fair, founded and curated by Emilia Petruccelli and Domitilla Dardi, is La Santissima, a former convent in vico Trinità delle Monache that hosts the exhibitors, while the projects of the Cult circuit are spread across villas, museums and churches in the Chiaia district. “Base Camp” is in room 22. To find your way among the season’s other events, our autumn 2026 design calendar brings together upcoming fairs and exhibitions.
Anyone who followed last year’s edition will remember Magliocco’s sculptural textures among the most admired exhibitors: we wrote about them in our report on EDIT Napoli 2025. To find out more about Antonio Di Maro’s work, his studio features in our selection of the best interior designers in Naples and, with Parco Comola Ricci, among the best interior design projects in Naples in 2026.
Frequently asked questions
What is Magliocco Tappeti’s “Base Camp”?
It is the installation Magliocco Tappeti presents at EDIT Napoli 2026, designed by the architect Antonio Di Maro, the brand’s creative director. It presents the rug as architecture: an element able to define a liveable space without the need for walls.
Where and when can it be seen?
In room 22 of EDIT Napoli, at La Santissima, from 9 to 11 October 2026, from 10am to 7pm.
How is the room arranged?
A low fabric canopy supported by nine wooden poles, a floor covered with rugs, seven rolled-up rugs leaning against the walls like luggage, low poufs instead of conventional seating, a lantern and a tray.
What did Magliocco Tappeti present in 2025?
At the previous edition of EDIT Napoli the brand presented the Il Mio Mediterraneo collection, a tribute to the cultural, natural and artistic nuances of the Mediterranean.
