Designed by Vico Magistretti
Paola is a simple but original seating project, the details make the difference and demonstrate how the design can always remain current over the years. Vico Magistretti, historic designer of universal designer projects, designs a chair with a solid yet exceptionally light appearance. The structure is in walnut or gray stained ash wood with a non-removable padded seat. A slight helical rotation outlines the rear legs when they become the supports for the slightly inclined and curved backrest. Paola is a stackable and light chair, ideal in any environment.
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Its sinuous curves resulting from the shaping of a sheet of frosted methacrylate softly diffuse the light. It brings together ?simplicity and concept? which for Magistretti are at the heart of durable design.
Realised in 1979, Kuta expresses Magistretti?s constant quest to combine simplicity and geometric rigour with an evocative lighting effect of lights and shadows.
In 1946, Vico Magistretti conceived Claritas, his first lighting design, which conceptually aimed for clarity and brightness. In a context of reconstruction and reconversion of the war industry, for the first time Magistretti used bent metal tubes and a curved aluminium sheet as a reflector, which could be oriented and regulated, ensuring the desired lighting […]
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Cobra, designed by Elio Martinelli in 1968 is over 50 years old, but doesn’t look it. A lamp still in the catalogue today for the fascination it continues to exert for the public. A lamp that is still timely, even if it took several years for its innovative design to be appreciated despite its simple […]
With direct reference to the anecdote of the apple falling on Isaac Newton?s head, suggesting the existence of gravity, Newton?s metal diffuser rotates and enlightens the natural element in a mix of direct and diffused light.
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As admirer of Alexander Calder, in 1951 Schottlander created the Mantis series of lamps. Movement is intrinsic to all of Schottlander’s work: an artist, an engineer and in no small measure a handyman, he devised a clever system of counterweights combined with a series of strong, and flexible metal bars. The shade also is unique […]
One of the iconic designs of the 1980s, Logo is a wall and floor system with a simple and rigorous aesthetics, represented by two slender aluminium stems and an adjustable diffuser to direct the light as required.