Pouf Blocco Model by Nanda Vigo for Driade, Italy

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Much of Fredrikson Stallard’s work is about fragmentation and deconstruction. There are many similarities between studying the beauty of the resulting forms, when deconstructing an object and the veneration of objects, or pieces of objects. Structure in drawn steel with polished gold finish. Top in lightened concrete with wax finish late-gray color. Indoor use only. Biography Patrik Fredrikson and Ian Stallard began their collaboration in 1995 and have since become internationally recognized as leading exponents of british avant-garde design. They are well known for their ability to translate their creativity into simple yet emotionally engaging furniture and product design. Their work has been acquired by the french national art collection and the Victoria and Albert museum, and shown at the design museum in London, Moma and the museum of art and design in New York. their clients include some of the leading names in contemporary design. Fredrikson Stallard has exhibited widely including in London, Milan, Paris, Madrid, New York, San Francisco, Shanghai, Basel and Miami. Fredrikson Stallard has been the recipient of some of the most prestigious design awards, including the red dot design award and the arts foundation...

"Blocco" is a pouf, designed by Nanda Vigo and manufactured by Driade, with wooden frame and padding in polyurethane foam of varying density. Upholstery in black Mongolian fur or in Loira velvet. Indoor use only. DIMENSIONS: D. 19.2", W. 17.3", H. 22.8", Seat H. 14.1" The “Blocco” seat / pouf, designed with such purpose in 1970, has got now a fresh re-edition with the same function but with a more joyful spirit by offering colorful covers. Have a nice seat! Nanda Vigo said about "Blocco": "Many elements called “furniture” are needed that actually remain “fixed”, once set, to the well-being. I've always rejected the tendency to overload space; therefore I have always worked to the limit of need." NANDA VIGO, born in Milan in 1936, lives in East Africa and works in Milan. She showed an interest in art at a very early age, when she had the opportunity to spend time with Filippo de Pisis, a family friend, and to study the architecture of Giuseppe Terragni, in which she immediately noticed the subtle employment of natural light. She studied architecture at the Ecole Polytechnique in Lausanne, worked as an intern in San Francisco, then returned to Italy where she opened her own studio in Milan. The underlying characteristic of the work has always been the relationship between light and space, which she has developed in a series of “environments” that blend architecture and design. In 1959 she began to visit the studio of Lucio Fontana and got to know that artists who founded the Azimut Gallery in Milan: Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani and Vincenzo Agnetti. During that period, she developed relations with the artists of the Zero group in Germany, the Netherlands and France, as a result of which her work was shown in more than 400 solo and group exhibitions throughout Europe. Between 1964 and 1966 she participated in some thirteen Zero exhibitions, including “Nul 65” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and “Zero: An Exhibition of European Experimental Art” at the Modern Art Gallery in Washington D.C.. She was the curator of the legendary exhibition “Zero avantgarde” in 1965 in Fontana’s studio in Milan, at which some 28 artists were represented. In 1964 she created Utopie with Lucio Fontana for the Triennale. Again at the Triennale, in 1973 she organized a performance at which architects and artists freely intervened: it's considered to have been the first happening at the event. In 1974 she received the New York Award for the Industrial Design for the Golden Gate lamp...

"Herve'" is an outdoor ottoman or table, designed by Lievore Altherr and manufactured by Driade, featuring a steel structure, with an embossed painting in grayish olive green color, and a cushion filled with Solotex and polyurethane foams. Indoor and outdoor use. DIMENSIONS: D. 26.7", W. 26.7", H. 11.4" Herve' is a garden and outdoor design collection inspired by natural forms, as it features a thin metal structure interlaced with the backrest in order to create a pleasant decoration recalling plants, bushes and branches, sporting a sober and refined taste. Several seatings are given form by these branches changed into thin metallic rod. Differently sized cushions make seatings comfortable. This outdoor collection offers different solutions for outdoors relax, including a two-seat sofa, a single element and two-seat left hand or right hand terminal, a coffee table or ottoman and a corner ottoman...