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year 1980s
source title The International Design Yearbook 5
info Beautiful but warped, this visionary furniture by Paolo Pallucco and Mireille Rivier twists even the parallelepiped for a sideboard, transforms a sofa into a wedge shape on the diagonal, and makes three-legged chairs look balletic in their twirling stance. Consider the complications of the front and back planes of the ‘W II Toro’ sideboard, which is supported at one end by a pair of castors, or ‘The Great Drought’ sofa, like an elongated triangle, deeper at one end than the other. The launch of this challenging collection was staged outside the Milan Furniture Fair in an abandoned slaughterhouse, with electronic music and copies of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry on angels handed out in lieu of explanations. But it is angles, not angles, which inspire these designs. Spotlit by Henry Alekan, the lighting director on Wim Wender’s film ‘Wings of Desire’ (also about angels), the shadows from the furniture fall like pinions on the ground.
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year 1980s
source title The International Design Yearbook 5
info Beautiful but warped, this visionary furniture by Paolo Pallucco and Mireille Rivier twists even the parallelepiped for a sideboard, transforms a sofa into a wedge shape on the diagonal, and makes three-legged chairs look balletic in their twirling stance. Consider the complications of the front and back planes of the ‘W II Toro’ sideboard, which is supported at one end by a pair of castors, or ‘The Great Drought’ sofa, like an elongated triangle, deeper at one end than the other. The launch of this challenging collection was staged outside the Milan Furniture Fair in an abandoned slaughterhouse, with electronic music and copies of Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry on angels handed out in lieu of explanations. But it is angles, not angles, which inspire these designs. Spotlit by Henry Alekan, the lighting director on Wim Wender’s film ‘Wings of Desire’ (also about angels), the shadows from the furniture fall like pinions on the ground.
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