Carimate Chair
“Cesare Cassina, a very clever man, once came to visit me at my studio and asked me if he could manufacture the first piece I had designed for the Triennale and which was produced by Terence Conrad in England. It was a chair designed for the golf club house near Milan, in Carimate, and that’s where the name of the chair comes from”. 

Eclisse Lamp
“Details originate by themselves. For instance, when I designed the Eclisse lamp I remeber I was in Piazza Conciliazione in Milan when the Artemide managers told me: "Architect, everyone now has beds, why don’t we produce a lamp?". I went out, took the subway and designed not the lamp itself, which actually I’ve never designed, but its concept. It’s a concept that derives from Victor Hugo, from Jean Valjean, the famous thief. It’s the thieves’ blind lantern. Eclisse has been a successful lamp, in fact it is still being produced, after 40, 45 years”.   

Sindbad Armchair
“Sindbad was born by throwing a horse blanket on the upholstered sofa structure, fixing it with two buttons. The intuition I had consisted in understanding that the horse blanket would have a strong impact thanks to its wonderful colours, those representing the English stables, and that this could be adapted to a sofa”.

Silver Chair
"These chairs may have various versions: with or without armrests. They are produced with a modern technology: aluminium and plastic for the seat. It’s a chair that is an homage to Thonet, who had produced a similar chair. I thought it would be a good idea to use and reinvent it, also because I’ve always loved Thonet chairs, even if these are no longer made of wood and straw, but of steel and plastic. At the same time they are an homage to other objects usually seen around us: they remind me of the baskets used for eggs in the Japanese market in Tokyo, with their square holes which I loved so much, and from which I took inspiration for this chair’s seat and back”.