The poetics of the wall. The forgotten wall. «A wall is like a book to be opened, a journey into the interior, revealing the experiences, memories, signs and symbols which this fragment of masonry has absorbed over the centuries.» Franco Guerzoni <p>It is difficult to resist the beauty of Franco Guerzoni's art, created by a rare harmony of feeling and intellect, poetry and mind. The artist expresses this through paintings which, although complex in structure, are joyous and sensual, with bright colours made, like those of the great masters of the past, from choice powdered ingredients. A painter with a technique rich in traditional skills, Guerzoni offers a version of modernity involving an intense fundamental relationship with his images and with space. In fact, the dialectic between painting and space, form and architecture, time and memory seems to be essential to his art. As his works specifically created for CEDIT clearly express, his creations achieve a perfect balance between the spatial dimension and intensely lyrical use of colour, which here becomes a soft, liquid form of matter, wandering across the surface of a dazzling lime-plaster white. White, metaphor for the clear light of day, as it was in the large, complex canvases exhibited in his personal exhibition at the 1990 Venice Biennale, is the background for forms of colour which renew the pleasure to be had from painting and the memory of an image glimpsed on the vast expanse of the surface. In the more recent works, these voluptuous shades are transformed into subtle shadows of colour that delicately caress the surface.</p>
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<p> All it takes is one wall, the only surviving wall of what was once a house, on which time has recorded its own, unavoidable passing, leaving traces of colour that is still vibrant, although faded in places, to allow the memory of the image to transpire, fragile and uncertain, in the physicality of the surface, to bear tangible witness to the existence of history, a mysterious visual memory, the extension into the present of the life of things. A memory of the past on a contemporary wall. The idea of memory is central to Franco Guerzoni's poetics: private, secret memory and the collective memory of the past. Fragmentary and indecipherable, perceived by the artist with the aid of what is left of the images, the fragment. A relic of a totality which can no longer be reconstructed but only imagined in poetic terms, the fragment, a fraction of an image conserved by time, guides the artist's fantastic archaeological journey in search of the world's memory. However, this journey takes him in the opposite direction to the archaeologist, for whom the fragment - fundamental because it reveals a trace of the past is the starting-point for an attempt to reconstruct history. For Guerzoni, the fragment is the endpoint of his work, the goal for which he strives in his investigation of the surface, as he digs deep down, leafing through the deposits of time and memory.</p>
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<p>Like the large pages of a book traced with fragile sketches, embryonic forms whose meaning has been lost in time, leaving only fleeting traces, uncertain, ambiguous, mysterious morphologies. It marks the start of a journey into the mind of the artist-archaeologist, an adventurous journey into the inextricable labyrinth of the mind, to unearth what is hidden, shuffling the cards in a perennial contamination of images, memory, signs and traces, in search of a meaning, which no sooner appears than it is lost, merging into time and once again becoming a dream, an imaginary journey into fantasy and wonder. And this is the case in the tryptic created for CEDIT, which placed a new challenge before the artist: to transfer "his" image, the remains and fragments of a forgotten wall onto a new material for him “stunning, large-sized ceramic slabs“ and a real wall, without this tautology betraying the painting's deep meaning, its fertile magic of lines and colours, from which the image is born. And the artist is fully aware of this. Guerzoni describes his art as a "gamble": a gamble that is a critical test, an act of daring, dangerous and risky. This is the challenge he sets himself. It is a challenge he easily overcomes, expressing himself on these large walls with a rediscovered pleasure in painting, no longer restrained and apparently absorbed by the dense, uneven coloured surface but set free and almost luxuriously accentuated. In his large, demanding works for CEDIT, Guerzoni achieves a new, consummate mode of painting, in which the architecture of the surfaces provides a poetic meeting-point between the two founding components of his style, the complex, well thought-out composition and the lyricism of colour.</p>
The Enfold Sideboard combines industrial materiality with residential references for a new perspective on modern storage. Made from a lacquered steel that gently enfolds its top and bottom in solid oak, the Enfold Sideboard fuses cold and warm materials for a unique expression, paired with the vibrantly modern expression of its ridged steel doors. The flexible design is available in four sizes, which all have adjustable shelves and discreet cable outlets. This offers the opportunity to find just the right fit for your space, function and needs — be it a media console, in the hallway or a tall sideboard for storage.
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Winner of the Golden Compass in 1994, the Mobil chest of drawers is presented in a matt version in white, black, green, plum and light blue. The new edition is made of recycled industrial materials, and has the same robust construction and functionality as the original. The basic element of the system is the drawer, alternated with shelves and tops, connected by an aluminium structure. In this new finish, the structure is coloured and the wheels are coloured too, now black instead of grey. This versatile product shouldn’t be restricted to use in the office as it fits perfectly into every room in the home, from the bedroom to the living room and the bathroom too.
The FK63 Bookcase System, designed by Preben Fabricius and Jørgen Kastholm, embodies Carl Hansen & Søn’s commitment to craftsmanship excellence and timeless design. Devised for maximum flexibility, the different modules can be combined in a multitude of ways to suit every space and need. Visit our customizer to design your own.
The Simplon cabinet, designed by Jasper Morrison, is a sideboard equipped with drawers and hinged doors. The legs are in anodized aluminium, whereas the cabinet is made of poplar plywood lined with aluminium.
From the mind of Isao Hosoe and Lorenzo De Bartolomeis the sideboard Shoji Madia is born, a storage unit on castors or fixed base in different heights and lengths, with square and elegant lines. The structure of the storage unit is in smoked glass, and is provided with sliding door/s available in several mirror finishes. The top back panel door or doors can also be in ceramic available in a range of polished or matt finishes. The drawer units in walnut Canaletto, Siberian Ash or Eucalipto, or matt RAL lacquered are optional.
The bookcase Hemingway with its refined and strong shapes was created by architect Massimo Castagna. It is a bookcase with frame in solid wood, made of uprights and beams, wall or ceiling fixing. The uprights are made lighter by frontal and lateral fissures and are characterised by inserts in polished metal. The horizontal beams physically and visually define the shape and rhythm of this bookcase. The structure supports the shelves and storage units available in different functions and dimensions. The bookcase Hemingway can accommodate horizontal storage units with flap opening and vertical units with hinge door, made of glass and wood. It also has a wooden desk top. The glass shelves and their peculiar side slots, are fixed to the uprights through interlocking pins, each shelf is provided with fall arrest security system. Vertical uprights and horizontal beams in solid wood complete the structure and are available in Siberian Ash or Eucalipto, with inserts and supports in polished chrome or gold. The shelves are in extra clear or smoked glass and the feet are height adjustable. Standard heights are 260 and 300cm, also available in custom size, and Tonelli Design proposes shelves in standard size 60 and 100cm. Storage units with flap opening and hinge door with structure in smoked glass and wooden door. Wooden desk top in 100cm, can be fitted out with cable entry. TV module with open storage unit in wood, size 160cm, to accommodate TVs up to 65 inches.
The bookcase Quiller is made of extra clear bevelled glass and is composed of six shelves closed on the sides. It was designed by designer Uto Balmoral and is perfect to be placed against the wall or free standing in living areas or work spaces. This bookcase is synonymous with lightness and linearity, thanks to the straight shapes and the transparency of the glass, that creates light effects that give brightness to the environment and thus the illusions of greater breadth. It is meant for modern environments and is an excellent match for minimalistic furniture complements.
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