Gufram - Guframini Broken Mirror black miniature

Gufram is proud to announce a new addition to the Guframini family, the special miniature collection that celebrates the brand's most recognizable icons.
The latest piece to be miniaturized is the Broken Mirror, the original version of which was launched in 2017 and designed by Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham, the minds behind the New York studio Snarkitecture.
Broken Mirror represents a real milestone in Gufram's production: on the one hand, it was the first piece ever designed for them by Snarkitecture, one of the most interesting contemporary radical studios; on the other hand, it was the first mirror ever to enter Gufram's catalog.
An object that does not neglect its functional purpose, Broken Mirror enriches and transforms it, becoming a work of art and transcending the boundaries of correspondence between form and function. Born from the meeting of Gufram and Snarkitecture's intent of experimentation, which investigates the boundaries between art and architecture with the same curiosity as the first Italian radical designers, it looks like a breach in the wall, a crack that reflects the space around it, but at the same time creates an estranging optical effect, as if the room opened to another dimension.
To achieve the texture of the concrete wall, Gufram's special patented paint, Guflac, is applied entirely by hand, allowing the polyurethane to retain its elasticity and experiment with unique aesthetic experiments.
Guframini Broken Mirror is made of polyurethane foam with hand application of Gufram's special patented paint, Guflac, which allows for the texture of the concrete wall on an elastic base. It is available in two colors: Black and White, an icon of Radical Contemporary Design in 1:8 scale.
Size is not always important!

Snarkitecture

Snarkitecture is a New York-based collaborative practice established to investigate the boundaries between art and architecture. The name is drawn from Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of The Snark, a poem describing the “impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature.” In its search for the unknown, Snarkitecture creates architectural-scale projects, installations, and objects.

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.