fabio novembre: 36h armchair + 56h rocking chair for driade

‘5 h’ by fabio novembre for driade

’36h’ and ’56h’ are two outdoor chairs created by italian designer fabio novembre for italian furniture manufacturer driade, set for presentation during milan design week 2012.

’36h’ and ’56h’ chairs

‘one of my earliest memories dates back to when my grandmother prepared the homemade pasta. we were ecstatic by the ritual she staged: the wisdom of the dough, the homogeneous leveled mass, the domestication of the surfaces.
 gestures handed down for generations, unifying practice and imagination, codes and extemporaneousness.
 the world has changed so much since then, and practice and imagination refer less and less to a single actor. I am free to roam the endless fields of fancy, building precarious bridges between the conceivable and the possible, in a process that ignores the temporal variation. on the contrary, those who turn my thoughts into substance, through manual dexterity and mastery of gestures, consider time as a plus value. the names of these two objects of memory, fellow adventurers in one’s raids of fantasy, refer then to the temporal element that each of them requires ,as a pledge in the hands of skilled craftsmen, in honor of their work and of the value that they’ll assume for those who will own them. ‘ – fabio novembre

’36h’ front and 3/4 views W75 x D65 x H105; seat height 46

’36h’ is an easy chair which has a throne-like quality with a high chair back and gently curved seat. the design is composed of an aluminium structure that is covered with woven plastic.  it is available in two versions: a bicolored down with a gray front and white back; or a white front and light blue back.

’36h’ lateral an back views

’56h’ 3/4 and front views W112 x D107 x H123: seat height 38

’56h’ is a rocking chair that is also made from an aluminium structure with covered woven plastic. it comes in three different versions. a bicolored combination of a gray front and white back; bicolored with a white front and light blue back; or multicolored white, gray and light blue.

’56h’ lateral and back views