Iconic pieces that will make your home stand out.

 

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Iconic pieces that will make your home stand out.

When furnishing a home, budget is always one of the main focuses, as it should be. With this newsletter we will explore some iconic design pieces, that can be the perfect center piece, to enhance your home, without making you go bankrupt. 
Iconic design pieces are forever, they can be passed down from father to son, from mother to daughter, they gain a lot more of than just objective value, they become heirlooms that will stay in your family for generations, bringing the best memories along with them. 

Vienna Chair

Vienna Chair - Galvanotecnica

 
Big Table - Bonaldo
Big Table - Bonaldo

A game of balances, an optical path that leads from one element to the next, from one colour to the next; the tilt angle of the legs suggests dynamism, the linearity of the table top adds greater visual stability. Whether immobile or moving, Big Table really does have an unusual personality.

 
030 - Ton
030 - Ton

The armchair with an open backrest comes from TON’s traditional line of products. Timeless shape and versatile usage. The seat can be made of plywood or covered with cane.

 
Sciangai - Zanotta
Sciangai - Zanotta

The inspiration for the Sciangai was the Chinese game where wooden sticks are held in the hand and then dropped onto a table. Just like the sticks are hand-held at the centre, Sciangai opens and closes thanks to a central metal washer. Astounding for its simplicity and originality, it won the Compasso d'Oro in 1979.

 
Navy 1006 & Navy 111 - Emeco 
Navy - Emeco

From the American Navy to Coca-Cola, part of the history of design.

Initially designed for the American Navy in 1944, the Navy 1006 has never stopped its production, with a notable 77 phases. Recycled aluminum that is moulded and hand-welded, that then is tempered in order to make it tough and light. Last but not the least, the chair is anodized in order to make it last through time.

Coca-Cola and Emeco actively collaborate to reach a shared objective: eliminating trash. This chair is called the Navy 111, because it's created with at least 111 PET bottles. The real added value of this chairs is not just the being produced with entirely recycled materials, the Navy 111 is a iconic chair that is loyal to the design of the Navy 1006, but gives life to an even greener chair.

 
Mezzadro - Zanotta
Mezzadro - Zanotta

In 1970 Zanotta put the “springy metal seat”, metaphorically named “Mezzadro” into production, that the brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni designed in 1957 for the exhibition “Shapes and colours in today’s homes”. With this rather unusual homage name, the object brings to mind Neo Vanguardism, from the provocative nature of Arte Povera to the irony of Pop Art. Like a work by Duchamp, the assembly of craft-based and industrial components holdstogether: the farming world in the sheet metal seat and the steel crossbow, the cycling world in the fixing pin and the nautical one in the beech wood crosspiece.

 
Replica Bertoia - Galvanotecnica
Bertoia - Chair

The Bertoia Side Chair is an icon of mid-century modern design. Bertoia found sublime grace in an industrial material, creating a design that works with every decor, in every room.

 
Ekstrem - Varier
Ekstrem - Varier

The iconic Ekstrem challenges conventional furniture, while still providing unparalleled comfort. A throwback to the eccentric 80s, the unexpected geometrics allow you to sit forward with feet on the ground, sideways with legs calmly placed on the armrests, or completely backwards with the front of the torso against the chair’s back. The Ekstrem is an ideal piece to spice up any interior.

 
Panton - Vitra
Panton - Vitra

The Panton Chair is a classic in the history of furniture design. Conceived by Verner Panton in 1960, the chair was developed for serial production in collaboration with Vitra (1967). It was the first chair to be manufactured completely out of plastic in one single piece. Since its introduction to the market, it has advanced through several production phases. Only since 1999 has it been possible to produce the chair in accordance with its original conception – out of durable, dyed-through plastic with a lustrous matt finish.

 
Lem - La Palma
Lem - La Palma

An iconic stool, with a perfectly minimalist and closed shape, Lem with its simple lines has all the necessary features. Sophisticated and timeless elegance, developed in an entire range of bright colours, different textures and various materials.

 
Componibili - Kartell
Componibili - Kartell

Modular elements were designed to meet various needs and to fit into any room in your home: bathroom, bedroom, kitchen or living room. The design solution that animates the Modular system is the elementary and solid vertical overlapping of interlocking single pieces to create practical storage furniture. Available round and square, Modular pieces can be rested on wheels. Flexible, functional, practical, Modular pieces have been in production for almost forty years and have received a great deal of recognition for the project's significance and innovation (they can be found on display at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Centre George Pompidou in Paris).

 
Fortuny - Pallucco
Fortuny - Pallucco

Mariano Fortuny revolutionized stage lighting as he experimented a new system of indirect lighting for the stage. His inspiration for the base of the lamp was a camera tripod, with its adjustable central leg, whereas for the Fortuny lampshade he turned the typical lampshades used at the time inside out to make them tilt- adjustable and thereby creating a tool to direct the light.

 
Sacco - Zanotta
Sacco - Zanotta

The idea of its designers was to realize a “universal” seat that would easily adapt to any body, in any position. Sacco is no doubt one of the most brilliant objects that have marked the Italian Design. Sacco is filled with polystyrene balls in order to transform it into the most informal, most versatile, most irreverent, most freeing, most soft, most ergonomic and ‘most’ everything chair. There is no defined shape. It is for this very reason that it has survived, untouched by time, through seasons, fashions and every ‘ism’ imaginable, preserving the greatest value of all: being a concept that well beyond the seasons arriving undamaged to the present day, is ready to be adapted into versions for children and teenagers, because to encourage smiles and fun even while sitting in an ‘armchair’ is not a luxury reserved for adults.

 
Replica Barcelona - Galvanotecnica
Barcelona - Galvanotecnica

A design that still plays a leading role in the world of interior design. This in itself makes the Barcelona chair something special. Why is everyone so fascinated by this chair? It is certainly something to do with its minimalist appearance. As Mies van der Rohe would have said: “less is more”.

 
Shiva - BD Barcelona
Shiva - BD Barcelona

“...I continue to produce small, small, small architectures, such as this ceramic piece, [...] a little like monuments, a little like tombs, a little like the abandoned temples of the gods, a little like the ruins of the ancient and unknown civilization in which something –the say– was known; it is said that they understood the axes, the curves, the intersections, perhaps even the causation of the courses of the cosmic bodies, along which each day slide the private vertices of the atoms that make up our fragile flesh and blood”. Ettore Sottsass had already by then been visiting India for a decade. His “little architectures”, such as this flower vase, owe a great deal to that culture.

 
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