Console with honeycomb core structure coated with white plastic laminate, digitally printed with black squares at 3 cm spacing.
Zanotta - Quaderna console
What we are talking about here are the terrible kids of Superstudio. In other words, in a given time in history when everything had to be criticised and rethought, in a season when the Italian architecture was passionate and which is now a myth, a group of young students wished to change the world from Florence and definitely managed to leave their mark, at least in our world, the design world.
They began with the ‘constant monument’ idea, which wrapped up everything such as a squared magma, continued with the ‘histogram of architecture’, which generated without any effort furniture and ambiences whose “Super-surface was a mental attitude model,” and then finally arrived at the ‘Super-idea’, which beats time with a constant regularity, deliberately written in black and white, conceptually revealed and theoretically closed, eventually generating the Quaderna collection, the most architectural items ever seen in the long history of furniture, which Aurelio Zanotta was ready to turn into a myth.
Superstudio
The group was set up in Florence in 1966, contributing with theories and designs to the radical architecture movement. In 1972 it set an environment for the show "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape" at the M.o.M.A. in New York. Between 1973 and 1975 Superstudio joined the “Global Tools”, participating in several Triennale shows and in 1978 it set a personal exhibition at the National Institute of Architecture in Rome. Since 1973 its members have been teaching at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence. In 1982 the Israel Museum in Jerusalem set a complete retrospective show of Superstudio’s works.Zanotta
Founded in 1954, Zanotta is recognized as one of the major protagonists of the history of Italian design. In particular since the 1960s, guided by the intuition and extraordinary entrepreneurial ability of its founder Aurelio Zanotta, conquer the international scene thanks to emblematic products for formal innovation. The technological research supported by the continuous evolution of the quality of materials and production processes is one of the best in the world.
The cultured and precious history of Zanotta is renewed in 2017 in the union with Tecno starting a common project. This implies the consequent strengthening of synergies and commercial strategies at the international level under the guidance of Giuliano Mosconi. It brings irony to the domestic universe, which suggests different ways to feel better in the world of the home, which for the first time has included in its catalog the works of the great masters of design, creating an unparalleled "collection" of masterpieces, awarded and exhibited in the most important design museums.
- Brand
- Zanotta
- Designer
- Superstudio
- Material
- Honeycomb core wood
plastic laminate