Crazy Horse

⬜️ Light that thinks. A table that moves.

Gherpe doesn’t illuminate a room — it occupies it.
Superstudio’s 1968 lamp reads as pure sculpture until it wakes up.
Crazy Horse does the same from below: Sottsass gave four legs a posture, not just a function.

Both pieces were made the same year. Both refuse to stand still.

At UN—, Poltronova’s installation at @isaloniofficial 2026, nothing was placed to be admired.
Everything was placed to be questioned.

◻️ Gherpe by Superstudio 1968
◻️ Crazy Horse by Ettore Sottsass jr. 1968

📸 Serena Eller Vainicher / Eller Studio @serenaeller @ellerstudio
🎨 Exhibition Creative Direction: @_d_apostrophe_ @donutsinho

⬜️ The Crazy Horse table, designed in 1968 by Ettore Sottsass for Poltronova, returns to production in 2025. Its slender laminated top is supported by four bold, painted metal legs. The geometric essentiality of the form plays against the dynamic tilt of the legs—true protagonists of this project named after the iconic Parisian cabaret founded in 1951. This piece feels strikingly contemporary and proves that great design continues to tell stories—beyond trends and passing fads.

⬜️ The Gherpe table lamp does not belong to the traditional typologies of lighting fixtures placed on a surface, due to its form like the shell of a marine creature, and to its use of an industrial material like methacrylate. It represents one of the first examples of an interactive luminous object, which thanks to its relationship with the user is capable of changing its tone: from white light for illumination, to colored light to alter the emotional perception of a space.

⬜️ Domestic space is no longer defined.

Poltronova returns to Salone del Mobile with UN—, an installation that takes shape from a condition that is unstable, open, and in constant transformation.

Following XS from the previous edition, where surface generated space, UN— operates through subtraction: not what is shown, but what remains incomplete, suspended, in progress.

Space no longer presents itself as a finished form, but as a process.

It is constructed as it unfolds.

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#poltronova #gherpe #crazyhorse #EttoreSottsass #superstudio

UNSTABLE FORMS. LIVING OBJECTS ⚪️

Nothing here asks to be understood immediately.
Everything asks to be experienced.
Inside UN—, Poltronova transforms domestic space into a condition of tension, movement, and possibility. Historical icons no longer behave like museum pieces. They become active presences inside an unfinished landscape.

Superonda flows through the space without fixed direction.
Gherpe unfolds like a luminous creature.
Crazy Horse turns structure into gesture.
Cessato Allarme stands somewhere between function and provocation.
Sanremo rises like a luminous palm inside the unfinished landscape of UN—. A radical floor lamp by Archizoom Associati that turns light into atmosphere, presence, and movement.

At Salone del Mobile 2026, Poltronova continues its dialogue between radical design history and contemporary experimentation, introducing new works by Bethan Laura Wood and Andrea Mancuso alongside the brand’s most iconic pieces.
UN— is not an exhibition about permanence.
It is about process.
About instability.
About what happens before things settle into definition.

📍 Salone Internazionale del Mobile @isaloniofficial
📸 Serena Eller Vainicher : Eller Studio @serenaeller @ellerstudio
🎨 Exhibition Creative Direction: @_d_apostrophe_ / @donutsinho
🎬 Animation by @gianlucagarupaionni


#Poltronova #SaloneDelMobile #MilanDesignWeek #CrazyHorseTable #ItalianDesign

IO SONO UN ARCHITETTO. ETTORE SOTTSASS

From 7 March to 26 July 2026, Palazzo Buontalenti in Pistoia presents a major exhibition dedicated to Ettore Sottsass, one of the most influential figures in twentieth-century architecture and design.
Painter, graphic designer, photographer and visionary designer, Sottsass (1917–2007) moved through the entire twentieth century with a perspective that was critical, observant and deeply sensitive to the cultural and social changes of his time.

Curated by Enrico Morteo and organised by @pistoiamusei, @fondazionecaript with @electaeditore, the exhibition explores three decades of Sottsass’s work. From the immediate post-war years to the early 1970s.
Drawings, photographs, ceramics, objects and archival materials reveal the development of his ideas, many of them presented to the public for the first time.
Special attention is given to Sottsass’s relationship with Tuscany and with the artisans and companies that helped shape his vision.

Projects developed with Poltronova — including Ultrafragola, Crazy Horse, Califfo and Superbox — stand as iconic examples of a design language grounded in experimentation, colour and symbolic form.
The exhibition presents both original pieces and archival materials preserved at @csac_parma and within the Centro Studi Poltronova Archive.

📍 Palazzo Buontalenti, Pistoia
 📅 7 March – 26 July 2026

#EttoreSottsass #DesignExhibition #DesignHistory #Poltronova #CrazyHorse