Edra
Milano Chair
Milano is a high-back chair with rotating base in chrome metal. It takes its inspiration from the facade of Milan's Duomo. The slender shape, the understated curves and the welcoming ergonomics offering composure are concepts of the past. Here, the ideas and proportions of antiquity and royalty return to the present in an approach as innovative in its essence as the techniques used to create it. Edra, together with Jacopo Foggini, has explored the chair's material. Crafted with artisan skill in polychrome polycarbonate the chair has a distinct and linear geometry. Polymer threads are extruded and sculpted in a regular rhythm to design long lines, each with a twin: their close embrace is disciplined by rigour of form in a concrete graphic script that gives the material life through movement.
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Milano Chair
Milano is a high-back chair with rotating base in chrome metal. It takes its inspiration from the facade of Milan's Duomo. The slender shape, the understated curves and the welcoming ergonomics offering composure are concepts of the past. Here, the ideas and proportions of antiquity and royalty return to the present in an approach as innovative in its essence as the techniques used to create it. Edra, together with Jacopo Foggini, has explored the chair's material. Crafted with artisan skill in polychrome polycarbonate the chair has a distinct and linear geometry. Polymer threads are extruded and sculpted in a regular rhythm to design long lines, each with a twin: their close embrace is disciplined by rigour of form in a concrete graphic script that gives the material life through movement.
Edra
Their non-conventional debut in 1987 was based around the "I Nuovissimi" collection, furniture pieces conceived by young, relatively unknown designers. The company grew rapidly with its innovative approach and art direction of Milan-based architect Massimo Morozzi. The aptitude of talent scouts has allowed the company to bring together some of the most interesting new designers, such as Alessandro Mendini, Masanori Umeda from Japan, Francesco Binfaré, Fernando and Humbero Campana from Brazil, Ross Lovegrove from Wales, and some top architects, such as Zaha Hadid and the Australian studio Denton Corker and Marshall to develop products that are grounded in fresh, contemporary ideas. Flexible in its organisation, Edra makes resourceful use of the skills of its local area to create innovative products, at times revolutionising classic upholstered furniture.
Jacopo Foggini
Jacopo Foggini was born in Turin and currently lives and works in Milan. He explores art and design crossing the boundaries imposed by the conventions of those disciplines. Jacopo joined the family business early in his career where discovered the versatility of the methacrylate, an industrial material normally used in automotive design. His first experimentation with this material date back to the beginning of the nineties, when he starts using a machine of his own invention that heats the methacrylate up to 200 degrees Celsius, producing a filament that he models with his hands to create luminous shapes, monumental works and mazes of threads in an elegant intertwining of colours.
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