1994

Mondo

Manufactured by Calligaris

Bentwood Beech chair, plain lathed legs, shells made of glulam.

"It is not enough that the chairs support us comfortably, they must also give the impression to protect our back, as if, in some way, we are to reject the ancestral fear of being attacked by a predator" *.

Like a designer / anthropologist struggling with a market loaded with anxieties and unresolved resentment, Mauro Pasquinelli seems to reply to this phrase by Alain de Botton with the project Mondo. Dimensionally more minute than it appears through the photographic shots, the chair is an oasis where, sheltered from the pitfalls, each of us can better prepare and take care of his intimate parallel universe.

 

*Alain de Botton, Architettura e felicità, Guanda, Parma 2006, p. 246

Much more than the mere taking function seems to unleash from the allusive cut in the seatback. The solar disc seems to emerge (or sink) on the horizon outlined by the seatback, not by chance but  as the epiphany of oldest foundation rites.

In the specular comparison triggered between the two elements dedicated to support the body there is also an unusually socialite quid, focused on the compact curvature of the seatback like a theater stage placed on a very balanced stool.

Mostra a cura di:

Umberto Rovelli, direttore del Museo del Design Toscano, MuDeTo


Fotografie courtesy di:

Calligaris


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