Industrial design - 2001- ....

Matteo Thun, Woody, Riva 1920, 2009.


Karim Rashid, Kairo, Riva 1920, 2009.
Also an eccentric designer like Karim Rashid can be inspired by the natural environment to create simple things.



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Matteo Ragni, W-Eye frames, MA-wood, 2010.
W-Eye is made by seven sheets of curved wood and two sheets of aluminium.


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Front, Wood Chair, Moroso, 2010.
A chair where a woven covering of natural birch wood balls of varying sizes fills the seat, almost as if to look like it is overflowing with foaming soap bubbles.

Industrial design - 1981-2000

Industrial design - 1951-1980

Gio Ponti, Superleggera, M. Singer & Sons, 1951.

The Superleggera was born to be a chair with these essential features: lightness, solidity and attractiveness (in fact, in the '50 Italy was coming out of the World War II). This draws on a typical chair of Liguria (a region of north-western Italy) tradition, the Chiavarina.
Gio Ponti (1891 - 1979) - Wikipedia.


Carlo Mollino, Tavolo Arabesco, Apelli e Varesio, 1950.
The model in the picture was recently reissued by Zanotta.

Industrial design - 1900-1950

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Wikipedia (1868-1930)