Pouf « Sacco » de Piero Gatti | Elsa Teixeira's Blog Pouf « Sacco » de Piero Gatti 06Feb11 « Sacco » , c’est le projet de trois designers italiens, Piero Gatti, Cesare Paolini et Franco Teodoro, qui, un beau jour de 1968, se présentent chez le fabricant de meubles Zanotta avec un projet un peu fou, mais bien dans son époque : un sac (sacco en italien) en PVC de 80 cm de largeur et 68 cm de hauteur, rempli de billes de polystyrène expansé. « Sacco » est présenté pour la première fois au public à la Foire du meuble de Paris en 1969. Le succès est immédiat. Aujourd’hui, toujours aussi populaire, il fait partie des objets cultes du design référencés dans les musées du monde entier. Il exprime l’anticonformisme de l’époque et la recherche d’un nouveau confort avec des meubles au ras du sol. J'aime : J'aime chargement…
ARAM | Eileen Gray Decha Archjananun | ECAL / Mas-Luxury 2010 – 2011 Paul Kasmin Gallery - Mattia Bonetti (b. 1952 in Lugano, Switzerland. Lives and works in Paris.) Since the beginning of his pioneering career in the early 1970s, Mattia Bonetti has approached the distinction between art and design not as a barrier, but as a wellspring of creative dialogue. As Carol Vogel writes, "Bonetti's work captures a particularly imaginative moment at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st centuries when historical forms are freshly translated and familiar materials are pushed to new limits. Every design, whether it be a sofa or a simple box, combines a sense of whimsy and glamour with a distinctive intelligence and originality." A comprehensive monograph of his work was published in 2010 by Skira/Rizzoli, featuring photography and text by Reed Krakoff and essays by Adrian Dannatt, Jacques Grange, Marie-Laure Jousset, and Princess Gloria von Thurn und Taxis. 2015 "New Works," PAUL KASMIN GALLERY, New York 2014 "New Works 2014," DAVID GILL GALLERY, London Download Biography PDF
Gaetano Pesce Studio Edward van Vliet Papanek Foundation Harry Bertoia Furniture | Harry Bertoia - Italian-born artist, sculptor, and modern furniture designer In the 1950s when most chairs were made of rigid wood, the Bertoia line of furniture - with welded wire and a springy feel - were totally innovative. Knoll International produced the first Bertoia chairs in 1952 and is still producing them today. Bertoia was exposed to chairs at Cranbrook when Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames entered and won the Organic Furniture Design Competition sponsored by the Museum of Modern Art. Bertoia developed his initial chair design ideas while working with Charles Eames and others in California in the late 1940s. Bertoia, frustrated by the lack of recognition, left Eames and was summoned to join the Point Loma Naval Electronics Laboratory. When former Cranbrook classmate Florence Schust Knoll invited Bertoia to work with her and her husband Hans in Pennsylvania, Bertoia was tempted but indecisive. They first intended for Bertoia to develop hospital furniture, but he preferred to work with healthy bodies. Furniture is available through www.knoll.com.