1968 Radical Italian Furniture

$🍬 Plasma Armchair and footrest by Nigel Coates . In the context of Nigel Coates’ growing interest in furniture, the Plasma armchair reflects the English designer’s taste for designing essential forms by digital means. Composed of a set of cushions in different tones placed on a slender metal structure with harmonious curves, Plasma combines the simplicity of a continuous graphic sign with the complex technology of the structure, made with computerized methods of bending and welding. With a footrest, it is also available for outdoor use. . . . . . . #poltronova #archizoom #nigelcoates #plasma #plasmaarmchair #plasmachair #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #chair #armchair#cushions #interior . . . music track by @infractionimhere$

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🐌 Gherpe
Table lamp designed by Superstudio
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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.
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$🐌 Gherpe Table lamp designed by Superstudio . The Gherpe table lamp does not belong to the traditional typologies of lighting fixtures placed on a surface, due to its form like the shell of a marine creature, and to its use of an industrial material like methacrylate. It represents one of the first examples of an interactive luminous object, which thanks to its relationship with the user is capable of changing its tone: from white light for illumination, to colored light to alter the emotional perception of a space. . . . . . . . #poltronova #archizoom #superstudio #gherpe #gherpelamp #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #lamp #light #dynamiclamp #interior . . . music track by @infractionimhere$

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🌊 Superonda
dynamic sofa by Archizoom Associati
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Designed in 1967 by the Florentine Radical group Archizoom, this was the first sofa without a conventional frame. It is composed of two waves made from a polyurethane block cut into two parts with an S—shaped incision, which can be interlocked and stacked to produce different configurations. The lightness and modular design permit a range of various uses: Superonda can be a sofa, a bed or a chaise longue. Like many of the pieces designed by the Archizoom group, it challenges bourgeois conventions, stimulating the creativity and fantasy of the user. The shiny leatherette cover in the basic colors of white, black and red accentuates the pop image.
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$🌊 Superonda dynamic sofa by Archizoom Associati . Designed in 1967 by the Florentine Radical group Archizoom, this was the first sofa without a conventional frame. It is composed of two waves made from a polyurethane block cut into two parts with an S—shaped incision, which can be interlocked and stacked to produce different configurations. The lightness and modular design permit a range of various uses: Superonda can be a sofa, a bed or a chaise longue. Like many of the pieces designed by the Archizoom group, it challenges bourgeois conventions, stimulating the creativity and fantasy of the user. The shiny leatherette cover in the basic colors of white, black and red accentuates the pop image. . . . . . . . #poltronova #archizoom #archizoomassociati #superonda #superondasofa #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #sofa #superondafarfalla #interior . . . music track by @infractionimhere$

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💭 Rumble: playful sofa by Gianni Pettena
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The design of this sofa derives from the experience of living in a large place, originally a 19th century atelier for artists, where the furniture had to be conceived on the scale of the place and not on a human scale. It is an object that dialogues with the volume of the overall space and takes into account the fact that that is where it is used. The sofa is a simple, original form, a womb where everything happens or has already happened, but which still suggests possibilities, other things that can happen there. It is an object that breaks up form as it breaks up function; it acquires meaning when the clean geometry of the initial status quo is upset by equally ungrammatical functions.
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$💭 Rumble: playful sofa by Gianni Pettena . The design of this sofa derives from the experience of living in a large place, originally a 19th century atelier for artists, where the furniture had to be conceived on the scale of the place and not on a human scale. It is an object that dialogues with the volume of the overall space and takes into account the fact that that is where it is used. The sofa is a simple, original form, a womb where everything happens or has already happened, but which still suggests possibilities, other things that can happen there. It is an object that breaks up form as it breaks up function; it acquires meaning when the clean geometry of the initial status quo is upset by equally ungrammatical functions. . . . . . . . #poltronova #giannipettena #pettena #rumble #rumblesofa #popdesign #collectibledesign #design #interior #décor #handmade #pannocasentino . . . music track by @infractionimhere$

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🥢 Canton
Bench designed by Franco Raggi
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The Canton wooden bench, designed by Franco Raggi in 1988, fitted out with two spaces on the sides—containers for magazines, books and phone directories, still in use at the time—ideally designed for home entrances, «was born, —Franco Raggi writes—, from a graphic exercise: a black line which in its continuous path creates two squares connected by a horizontal line. Dragging this line into the third dimension, I realised that the solid thus obtained could be a bench, not a comfortable seat, but for temporary use, where ergonomics could be sacrifice in favour of an abstract, almost neoplastic image. Books and things could be put in the squares transformed into open compartments.»
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After putting the project in their catalogue — in the usual philological fashion — Centro Studi Poltronova, together with the architect Franco Raggi, has brought out a new version of Canton, in two combinations, red and green, blue and orange, each with a positive and a negative version.
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🚙 Autostrada
Rug system designed by Lapo Binazzi
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Signed for Poltronova by Lapo Binazzi, Autostrada is exactly what it promises: a roadway modulated in curves and straight lines, available in the three different colour combinations in the version reissued by the visionary Florentine designer on the basis of a drawing kept in the archives of the Centro Studi Poltronova per il Design. Produced in a single copy by Poltronova in 1990 on the occasion of the exhibition Il Dolce Stil Novo (della casa) curated by Andrea Branzi at the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, the rug returns to show itself as one of the objects that were put on display to investigate the central dimension of the project, the home, “that is, our survival within the artificial universe, within the violence and vulgarity of the times, in the uprooting accomplished by the intrusive flows of information”.
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1968 Radical Italian Furniture

31.05.2014

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1968 Radical Italian Furniture
Fotografie di Maurizio Cattelan & Pieropaolo Ferrari
con Alessandro Mendini (Illustratore), Maria Cristina Didero (Collaboratrice)
Rilegato, 120 pagine
Deste Foundation/Toilet Paper, Slp Brdbk edition, Maggio 31, 2014
Inglese, 14.3 x 9.5 x 3.9 pollici