Six Ways to Italian Design
Since the days of DaVinci, great design has poured from the rich and artistic culture of Italy. From iconic to innovative, here are six ways to Italian design.
Design, Products
August 23, 2012
Design, Products
October 3, 2011
Herman Miller + Magis: Stefano Giovannoni
Italian architect Stefano Giovannoni is a prolific designer with interests that span not just the world of furniture but also digital design. Above he is photographed with a tablet he designed for Alessi. It’s an interactive multimedia device dubbed alessiTab that lives in the kitchen and connects you to everything from your favorite recipes to online food stores.
Giovannoni is probably best known for his iconic Bombo stool. Its soft organic seat is formed with injection-molded plastic sprouting from a chrome stem and base. Using advances in that same air-molding technology Giovannoni designed Chair First. This time there was no chrome. The whole chair is one durable, sturdy, lightweight piece of plastic that is 100% recyclable. For all its elegant simplicity of form it is a major breakthough in chair design – hence the name Chair First.
For more on Giovannoni check out the post over on Discover.
Herman Miller + Magis: Jasper Morrison, Konstantin Grcic