Video: Giant "come to life" chairs and dressers: unusual furniture design from Italy
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Have you ever wondered that furniturethat surrounds you, keeps the memory of your moments of joy and grief, witnesses triumphs and disappointments? Perhaps ordinary tables and chairs are not endowed with a subtle mental organization, but here are beds and dressers from Italian designer Umberto Dattola actually capable of it.
The EVNI collection was presented by Umberto Dattol at Milan Design Week, using old furniture to create it, transforming antique wardrobes and nightstands into giant fantasy creations. The "revived" interior items seem to have left the pages of a book about Alice's adventures in Wonderland.
Of course, looking at the "chatting" giant chairs and the divine bed spread out in the middle of the forest, it is difficult not to succumb to the charm of this furniture. The long surreal legs of dressers and cabinets make them look like huge spiders that try to crawl away at any moment. The magic consists precisely in having time to enjoy their beauty and reflect on the fact that everything around us lives its own unique life, connected with ours into a single whole.
About furniture, which can be called a work of art, we have repeatedly written on our website Culturology. RU. There are wooden masterpieces from John Makepeace, forged curiosities from Sally Bridge and paper experiments from Tokujin Yoshioka.
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