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Design in Italy in critical times

Portapacchi
Alfonso Cantafora

A “DIY” rack, high end customized, totally decomposable to be setting in the travelling, and to carry the essential stuff, solid but essential. From the smallest element improved in every detail to a bicycle prosthesis, always in progress, obsessively trying to follow the idea of perfection between technique and pure, cultured invention. A design born of a fascination for mechanics and their aesthetics, putting machines and experts to the test, a work elaborated with refined traditional techniques, that are slowly disappearing.

Alfonso Cantafora was born in Milan in 1973. After graduating in architecture at the Politecnico di Milano he travels by bike for 11 years in the most part of Europe. He won the design competition Artò 2011 at Lingotto in Turin with a bike that covers three themes: structure, mechanics, sound survey of the landscape.

Picchio Alessandro Gnocchi

with Luca Spagnolo – A hyper-ordinary object designed as a mere exercise, and not dedicated to a specific client. Picchio is perpetual calendar to … [more]
Intra Paolo Imperatori

A series of vases made up of two different structures, an internal one and an external one, both visible at the same time. The … [more]
Après Repas Esploratori dello spazio

Apres Repas are a set of thin porcelain items which are orderly collected on a high wooden tray, to eat on small or non-existent … [more]
Souvenir Mediterraneo Sonia Pedrazzini

Souvenir Mediterraneo are a series of ex vote handmade terracotta, which lose their sacred value to assume a more laic and profane one. The … [more]
Ex.2 pen holder Alessandro Gnocchi

A hyper-ordinary object created purely as an exercise and not in response to a specific request. A pen holder for creative individuals that always … [more]
Typocraft Esploratori dello spazio

A do-it-yourself alphabet in folded paper to write big sized analogical messages on walls. Molded in letter shapes, the second hand papers earn a … [more]
Mr. Quadrago Claude Marzotto

with Maia Sambonet – A device for portable printing; object-game-workshop, built with simple and recycled materials: a bicycle wheel, old wooden letters, etc. To … [more]
Eau Sainte Sonia Pedrazzini

An exceptional souvenir between sacred and profane, suddenly relevant, that concentrates spiritual and terrain references with the irreverence of an object for mass use … [more]
Tantooo Antonio Scarponi

A comfortable and enveloping beanbag, animal shaped, in which to sit to read and write. Big enough to become an independent space, a sought … [more]
Tavoli da gioco esterni

Series of double-face tables with extemporaneous graphics superimposed on which socialize and have fun or eat while playing. The plans are all different and … [more]
This is not Bauhaus Servomuto

with Leitmotiv – Lampshades which are the result of the union between two souls: pure geometry and excessive decoration, an unusual combination that represents … [more]
Carte pioniere Marianna Merisi

An illustrated garden, the transposition on paper of a nature never sufficiently considered in the city. Pioneer plants colonize uncultivated urban spaces making abandoned … [more]

PortapacchiAlfonso Cantafora

Portapacchi
Alfonso Cantafora