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Passiflora
The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition "Superarchitettura" [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design. The cardboard was replaced with a light–permeable material, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text "Invention Design and Evasion Design".
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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.
Superstudio
Superstudio was founded in Florence in 1966 by Adolfo Natalini and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, later joined by Roberto Magris, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris and Alessandro Poli. One of the leading groups of Radical architecture, it became known for visionary projects such as the Continuous Monument of 1969 and the Supersurface, shown at MoMA in 1972.
For Poltronova it designed the Sofo sofa, cut from a cube of polyurethane, with its T01 and T02 tables, and the Ofelia photo frame and Spera and Vanitas mirrors, milled from marble offcuts; the Tappeto Sofo rug followed in 2023.
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