Gufram - Guframini Sunrise Cactus miniature

Gufram and Paul Smith renew their collaboration to present the SUNRISE CACTUS, a bold new interpretation of the iconic piece originally designed by Guido Drocco and Franco Mello in 1972.
The Gufram x Paul Smith SUNRISE CACTUS-which celebrated the reopening of the recently renovated iconic Paul Smith store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles-is a symbol of resilience, thriving in difficult conditions and representing the will to grow and evolve. It represents a metaphorical new dawn for Paul Smith in Los Angeles and a renewed Gufram presence in the United States. The new SUNRISE CACTUS is now available in its miniaturized version: a limited edition of 600 Guframis that retains the original format's energetic and optimistic color palette typical of the sunrise.Like the sun rising over the horizon, inspiring a sense of joy and energy, the powerful hues of the Guframini SUNRISE CACTUS gradually change from the soft yellow hue at the base to the purple tone of a summer sky at the top, fading through light tones of orange and pink. A dedicated wooden box makes up the packaging with a custom cardboard backdrop that echoes the color palette of the Guframini SUNRISE CACTUS, and a plexiglass panel displaying information about the limited edition and the collaboration with Paul Smith. In addition, the box will house the personalized card with the handwritten edition number and collaboration logos.
Just like the full-size SUNRISE CACTUS, the new miniature is hand-finished, becoming a one-of-a-kind, 1:8 scale icon of Radical Contemporary Design.

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.