fabio novembre: strip for casamania

fantastic concept; it should be really beautiful, but the shape + the thickness just don't quite get there.

"womans skirt with slit up the side"
who wrote the text? berlusconi?

nicey   03.31.11

Dear fabio/casamania - I'm sure that you've produced other great work, but this one falls short on many levels.

This is yet another roto-molded seat to add to the plethora of roto-molded seats in the world. Why not use another material other than polyethylene if you're trying to break through the saturation? There is no justification for these types of products proliferating our design vernacular anymore. Sadly, this is yet another design company and another designer feeling obliged to push another mass-produced plastic seat at the Salone.

"Small armchair". Ergonomic research suggests that the human race is getting taller/wider/bigger, why design a small chair?

Quotes such as the following are quite generic and portray a lack of motivation for why this piece was created:

"that takes its form from that of a bloomed flower"

"that gently folds into itself, flowing outwards almost like that of a woman's skirt with a slit running up its profile on one side"

"symmetry is rare in nature" Sorry but the fibonacci sequence which relates directly to symmetry is found in so many places in nature, you just have to look.

If you're going to design something that is essentially a piece of art, then at least instil it with some substantial meaning rather than generic inspiration, and no don't do it after the fact or else it just comes across as being insincere. Without all of the sexual innuendo and use of petroleum-based polyethylene, this would actually do quite well as a children's product.

k.g.   03.31.11

Right on K.G.
Fabio is such a narcissist designer.

Bear   04.01.11

very simple shape, like a pinched piece of clay.
I would enjoy this very much.

tosh   04.01.11

LOVE IT!!!!

Vladimir   04.01.11

symmetry in nature solely within the kingdom animalia (based on phyla):

Radial Symmetry: Cnidaria (i.e. jellyfish) ~ 9,500 species

five-fold symmetry: Echinodermata (i.e. starfish) ~ 6,000 species

bilateral symmetry: arthropoda >2,000,000 species, superficially in chordata (i.e. HUMANS, the list goes on) ~ 45,000 species


just wanted to say, if you're going to "quote" nature, please do your research first.

rj cottard   04.04.11