Anonimo Contemporaneo
2019
Client: Galleria Giustini/Stagetti
Carbon Chair part of Vitra Design Museum, permanent collection.
Anonimo Contemporaneo focuses on the chair in its Italian popular declination: the anonymous object par excellance.
La Romanella is the Roman version of this category. In Italy, and throughout the mediterranean area, this type of chair exists in many variant forms, which however share many common formal and structural characteristics. This chair type represents a kind of object that has always existed and has evolved over time in an infinite range of variant formal solutions, each in search of the most efficient mode of producions. By their nature these chairs are ‘by’ no-one and therefore belong to everyone and they are open to interpretation free of copyright.
Romanella Chair
The research process began while I was guest of the American Accademy in Rome; I immediately turned my attention on these anonymous, silent objects that have always served us.
“I found this chair in 2013, in the last remaining active workshop in Via dei Sediari in Rome and immediately thought that I could probably see the same workshop in the same place hundred of years ago.
I’m not dreaming of some mythical primitivism or a return to the past, but rather of a potential model from which to reinvent contemporary design. A solid object, seemingly unchanging because it is already perfect.”
“I found this chair in 2013, in the last remaining active workshop in Via dei Sediari in Rome and immediately thought that I could probably see the same workshop in the same place hundred of years ago.
I’m not dreaming of some mythical primitivism or a return to the past, but rather of a potential model from which to reinvent contemporary design. A solid object, seemingly unchanging because it is already perfect.”
Anonimo Contemporaneo was created with the aim of intervening on a received original, varying its characteristics without altering its fundamental concept, thus demonstrating that it is possible to revisit the same idea countless times, without ever repeating itself. Two types of wood, aluminum, carbon fiber, straw, rubber and leather, the chair and armchair.
This collection is a subtle and sophisticated experiment, where in each variation a different material is interpreted, celebrating its specific qualities to return, in a contemporary idiom, the essential idea of a popular, familiar and elegant chair: at once iconic and anonymous.
This collection is a subtle and sophisticated experiment, where in each variation a different material is interpreted, celebrating its specific qualities to return, in a contemporary idiom, the essential idea of a popular, familiar and elegant chair: at once iconic and anonymous.
Wooden Chair
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Aluminium Chair
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Carbon Fiber Chair
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Wooden Low Chair
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This collection is a subtle and sophisticated experiment in which in each variation a different material is interpreted, celebrating its specific qualities to return, in a contemporary language, the essential idea of a popular, familiar and elegant chair: at once iconic and anonymous.
Aluminium Chair
Carbon Fiber Chair
Wooden Low Chair
This collection is a subtle and sophisticated experiment in which in each variation a different material is interpreted, celebrating its specific qualities to return, in a contemporary language, the essential idea of a popular, familiar and elegant chair: at once iconic and anonymous.
Aluminium Chair
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Carbon Fiber Chair
Project team:
Giuseppe Arezzi
Veronica Camera
Photo credits:
Omar Golli
Valentina Sommariva
Veronica Camera