Overview
Design by Fratelli Campana, 2010.
By Alessi.
Poetic randomness defines the aesthetic quality of Fernando and Humberto Campana's "Blow Up" series, in which the form of the object is created by the seemingly haphazard play of shapes and spaces.
Alessi's Blow Up Small Table in Bamboo features a hand-finished bamboo wood base and a clear glass table top.
Receipient of the 2010 Green Good Design® Award.
Specifications
Material(s): Bamboo, tempered glass
Dimensions: 17.7" Dia X 17.3" H
Models
FC09-WD
A beautiful table!
By: Anne, Homeowner (Scottsdale, AZ)
Looks delicate but actually quite sturdy. In a living room with antique rugs, black leather furniture and Tolomeo lights â a beautiful accent that carries the bamboo theme into this room. The packing was a work of art in itself. So glad I bought this table!
Designer: Fratelli Campana
Humberto Campana, lawyer and Fernando Campana, architect, have been working together in São Paulo since 1983 in the field of artistic design. They came into the limelight in 1989 with the furniture exhibition provocatively entitled "Gli inconfortabili" (The Inconsolable), a political manifesto rather than functional objects. Their radical point of view is strengthened by the use of poor materials and industrial rubbish. Hand-made products represent the possibility of social redemption in a poor country. Their intention is, however, to find a way for Brazilian design, avoiding European colonization. In Italy, they participated in the "Viaggio in Italia" exhibition at Abitare il Tempo in Verona in 1994 and in 1995 at the exhibition organised at the Brazilian Consulate in Milan "Il Brasile fa anche design". In 1997 they designed lights for O Luce. Some of their pieces appear in the International Design Year Book of 1997, edited by Philippe Starck. In 1998 the Moma in New York dedicated the "Progetto 66" exhibition to them, coupled with Ingo Maurer.
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Alessi. Art and Poetry.
Alessi is a family owned Italian design company, founded in 1921. Giovanni Alessi, a talented sheet metal worker, produced items by hand for the table and home out of copper, brass and nickel-silver. He was later joined by his son Carlo who was responsible for many of the designs produced in the 1930s and early 1940s. In the mid 1940s Alessi began to work with outside designers. The current Alessi catalog is the result of a collaboration with over 500 designers from all over the world.
"A true work of design must be able to move people, to convey feelings, to trigger memories, to surprise, to go against the grain. From this point of view, design intended to conjure up images in people's minds, which makes them a bit happier, still has tremendous potential." — Alberto Alessi
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