The essence of my work’ s goal is that the objects must be useful and their materials recognizable. The construction must be clean-cut and its shape a logical result of its construction and materials. As I don’ t like fake pockets and purely decorative buttons, so I don’ t like materials masquerading as something else, i.e., aluminum as “wood”, or plastic as “marble”. Often, I add some playfulness, but I never lose sight of my initial aim, which is to answer to the specific need for which the object is being made – as simply and self-evidently as primitive people used to make their utensils, tools, and houses. With this same logic I design all objects, using contemporary materials, following the latest techniques, and trying not to be carried away by the mass of pictures in magazines and tv about the fashionable new “trends”. (What, really, is the meaning of trends? Could it be simple mimicry?) Why should we produce something “different” only because it needs to be “different”? A chair that offers, through some new technology, more comfort, is indeed an important and original proposition; but an “imaginative, different” chair in which one cannot sit comfortably, is just nothing.
The essence of my work’ s goal is that the objects must be useful and their materials recognizable. The construction must be clean-cut and its shape a logical result of its construction and materials. As I don’ t like fake pockets and purely decorative buttons, so I don’ t like materials masquerading as something else, i.e., aluminum as “wood”, or plastic as “marble”. Often, I add some playfulness, but I never lose sight of my initial aim, which is to answer to the specific need for which the object is being made – as simply and self-evidently as primitive people used to make their utensils, tools, and houses. With this same logic I design all objects, using contemporary materials, following the latest techniques, and trying not to be carried away by the mass of pictures in magazines and tv about the fashionable new “trends”. (What, really, is the meaning of trends? Could it be simple mimicry?) Why should we produce something “different” only because it needs to be “different”? A chair that offers, through some new technology, more comfort, is indeed an important and original proposition; but an “imaginative, different” chair in which one cannot sit comfortably, is just nothing.
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