Poltronova
Terrazzo
Bethan Laura Wood's experience in a Venetian palazzo, during an artists' residency in 2010, is translated into a kaleidoscopic pattern, with many colored "gems" to support the lightness of the wave. Bethan fell madly in love with the terrazzo that covered every inch of the space at her disposal, and fascinated by the many types of decoration, she has proposed them again in her works. The precious stones are thus released from the terrace, from the landscape imprinted in the eye, to set themselves in the fabric designed for Poltronova and, used as a covering for the products, give another original idea of relaxation and an unforgettable experience of their own.
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In the 1960s, in a region such as Tuscany which produced literally nothing in the field of design, Poltronova had all the best on its team: not just Ettore Sottsass, who was its art director, but Gae Aulenti, Paolo Portoghesi, Giovanni Michelucci, Angelo Mangiarotti, the Archizoom and Superstudio groups, De Pas-D’Urbino-Lomazzi; not just the mentors, but also the leading exponents of New Design who were then called radicals…
The Centro Studi Poltronova was created in 2005 for two reasons: to archive important documents associated with the original Poltronova Company, and also to make some of its more iconic furniture and lighting pieces available in the marketplace.
Bethan Laura Wood
Bethan Laura Wood, born in 1983, studied in Brighton and at the Royal College of Art, completing her master’s under Jurgen Bey and Martino Gamper in 2009 and founding her studio that year. Known for her research into materials and colour, she won Design Miami’s Designer of the Future award in 2013.
For Poltronova she created the Terrazzo fabric in 2022, a kaleidoscopic pattern of coloured gems recalling the terrazzo floors of the Venetian palazzo where she stayed in 2010, followed in 2025 by Terrazzo Quarry, a seating landscape of upholstered rocks.
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