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"Blocco" Fuchsia or Blue Faux Fur Pouf Designed by Nanda Vigo for Driade

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"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 fuchsia or blue faux fur. 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. In 1976 she was awarded the Saint-Gobain Prize for the work with glass. In 1982 her work was included at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition of her work at the 2006 Milan Triannale underlined her uninterrupted creativity since her earliest works. Resting faithful to the artistic convictions she had championed throughout her career, Nanda Vigo’s work combined art, design, architecture and “environments”, operating no distinction between architecture, design and art, and with the intrinsic belief that the concept renders explicit a spiritual and almost initiatory research. Her unconventional career has been distinguished by the emphasis she places on research unbounded by any disciplinary limits, in which her inspiration is given by philosophical theories rather than aesthetic doctrines.
  • Creator:
    Nanda Vigo (Designer),Driade (Manufacturer)
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 22.8 in (57.92 cm)Width: 17.3 in (43.95 cm)Depth: 19.2 in (48.77 cm)Seat Height: 14.1 in (35.82 cm)
  • Style:
    Modern (Of the Period)
  • Materials and Techniques:
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  • Period:
  • Date of Manufacture:
    2022
  • Production Type:
    New & Custom(Re-Edition)
  • Estimated Production Time:
    9-10 weeks
  • Condition:
  • Seller Location:
    Brooklyn, NY
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU163928399043

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