I’m always drawn to chairs that feel like they’re doing more than just sitting there — and the Tucroma dining chairs by Guido Faleschini are exactly that kind of piece. This set of six installed around a rectangular glass dining table is one of those perfect 1970’s design moments where everything clicks: material, form, color, and space all working together without trying too hard.
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Different designer’s experiments with new materials have marked important, turning points in the history of design. Gaetano Pesce never stopped experimenting with them – in particular with residence. As one could infer fro its name, 1984’s Pratt Chair (3) is one of nine he produced as part of a project for the Pratt Institute, are renowned art, and design school in New York. Continue reading Eye On Design: Gaetano Pesce Pratt Chair (3)
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Designed by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan in collaboration with Seletti, this collectible porcelain plate with an image of a Toad Sandwich — pulled from the pages of Cattelan’s provocative, image-only magazine Toilet Paper — is just as charmingly absurd as the rest of the artist’s oeuvre.
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After an extended stay in Paris in 1900, Giacomo Balla (1871 – 1958) became increasingly interested in depicting the dynamism of modern life. The focus on motion, speed, and technology that characterize his subsequent work was central to the Futurist movement, whose tenets Italian poet, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti set forth in his 1909 Manifesto of Futurism.
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Cesare Colombo (1930 – 1971), known as Joe Colombo, was an Italian industrial designer. Colombo’s Tube Chair (1969–70) is an iconic piece of modular furniture that embodies his futuristic and flexible design philosophy. Manufactured by Flexform, the chair consists of four cylindrical cushions of varying diameters, which can be rearranged to create different seating configurations.
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