secret garden
From Archive to Future
Secret Garden is a physical and conceptual extension of Riccardo Rami Studio.
A place in transformation: a living organism where archive, nature and design intersect to generate new possibilities.
Currently under restoration, it is evolving into an active environment —
a space where research, memory, experimentation and future projects coexist, rooted in Prato’s textile heritage and open to what is emerging.
the project
Where memory, matter and time converge.
Secret Garden is conceived as a hybrid space — garden, archive and working environment — where natural and constructed elements coexist within a designed ecosystem.
It connects the Studio to the historic core of Piazza Mercatale, creating continuity between memory and transformation.
It is not a container.
It is an active field, where time is layered and reorganised, allowing the past to inform the present and the future to take shape naturally.
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Archive
An archive that generates, not preserves.
The archive is not a static repository.
Textiles, garments, products and objects are collected, reinterpreted and reactivated as part of an ongoing process, directly connected to the Studio’s operational work.
It is a living memory — composed of textile, artistic and design knowledge —
continuously questioned, transformed and directed toward new possibilities.
An archive that does not only preserve, but generates.
transformation
From restoration to reconfiguration.
Secret Garden is currently undergoing a deep phase of transformation.
The restoration is not only physical, but functional and perceptual.
The space is being reconfigured to allow work, research, exhibition and interaction to coexist fluidly, without rigid separations.
The central garden becomes the core of this system —
a point of connection between what has been and what is becoming, rooted in its context and open to new possibilities.
future
Secret Garden looks ahead as a space for listening, exchange and evolution.
A point of convergence for materials, collections and ideas — where the archive becomes direction and projects find their moment to emerge.
At its center, the garden — not immediately visible, yet essential — acts as the junction between past and future.
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Here, everything realigns.
What exists transforms.
What is yet to emerge begins to take form.
