Gufram - Guframini Metacactus miniature

For the 50th anniversary of GUFRAM’s most prickly icon, everything is illuminated, indeed lively! Including the Guframini CACTUS®, who for the big occasion present themselves with their best mise in a miniaturized version. A concentrate of irreverence on a scale of 1: 8. To celebrate the CACTUS® birthday, therefore, the Guframini METACACTUS® and LEBLEUCACTUS®, ANOTHER GREEN CACTUS® & ANOTHE R WHI T E CACTUS®, ROS SOCACTUS ® a n d NEROCACTUS® arrive! All together (shrunk down) passionately they keep their slightly cheeky nonconformity and their sophisticatedly sexy irony unchanged. Designed in 1972 by the creative mind of the duo Guido Drocco and Franco Mello, CACTUS® perfectly portrays the always avant-garde vision of the Gufram brand, its desire to overcome the limits of design and its Radical Design spirit. A vision that remains intact even in the miniatures of domestic sculptures exhibited in museums around the world. Each mini-reproduction is made of polyurethane foam which is injected into the previously painted mold so as to obtain a unique piece identical to the original: same softness, same colors and same details. Each Guframini is then finished by hand thus becoming a unique piece. ... And above all unrepeatable. Size doesn't always matter!

Drocco/Mello

Guido Drocco was born in San Benedetto Belbo, Cuneo, on 19 September 1942. He graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino. He works in architecture and industrial design and is active in Turin. Since 1996 he has been lecturer in Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic of Turin.

Gufram

Gufram is an Interior Design Italian brand globally known for pushing the limits of industrial design. With its Radical Design spirit and its nonconformist experimentation linked to aesthetic, technological and material research, Gufram has created seats and interior design icons that have entered collective imagination: playful, subversive and desecrating products with a POP soul, willingly designed as anti-design items. Gufram was born in Turin as an artisanal entity, where the craftsmen specialized in upholstery, cabinet making and furniture padding met the artistic and international avant-garde with the goal to give birth to a new way of understanding modern furniture. Since 1966 Gufram has been producing design icons that have become unique in form and value thanks to the cross-contamination between the industrial design approach, the artisanal creation and the imaginative flair typical of art. Gufram's unmistakable furniture items like the couch Bocca, the chaise lounge Pratone and the hall tree Cactus (just to name a few), also known as Domestic Sculptures able to interpret the contact point between both the artistic and the design worlds, are now displayed in the most beautiful houses and in the most renowned museums in the world.