CHAPTER II / MASTERS OF MINDFULNESS
PERFECTION � COMPULSIVE � DISORDER
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ARKETIPO � FIRENZE
“I can’t quite remember how I heard about Arketipo, or when
it was precisely that I started working for them, but what I do
recall was that a fellow designer Adriano Piazzesi, whom I
knew from a diff erent design team called Quadrone, urged me
to design armchairs and under-tables, that’s where I began to
see, the Arketipo way. ”
“It was in 1988, a year aft er I fi rst started designing that I
was commissioned to develop a modular sofa that was
characterised by a very specifi c element: a seat that had
variable depth. Moreover, in the midst of the boom in
furnishing fabrics, we were looking for a product that, going
against the tide, could live on its own well-defi ned image in
which the covering was in subordination. I chose the completely
new way of combining important and consolidated materials
from tradition, such as marble for the lesser perimeter, with
refi ned and tried-and-tested technologies, such as the sides in
glossy polyester, to qualify the product and make it original
and almost inimitable.”
Th at is the story of Bimbi’s fi rst breakout product, Triclinium. It
has the unique vision of an Arketipo design; one that combines
materials and functions, one that understands that a room
should be lived in and equally admired, one that conceptualises
what it means to produce something that is noted and a game
changer.
Seat depths alternate, large shelves surround the entire system
and the choice of materials like marble for, said shelves and
wood for the framing system make it a juxtaposition of hard
and soft yet, equally fl uff y.
“In order to create something like, Triclinium, you need to be
trusted, you need to have freedom, that’s what Arketipo gave
me. Th ey allowed me to dig deep inside my consciousness, my
fascination with curves, curls, padding, more or less tasteful
preciousness have been for me the pretext for an overall
rereading of the past, in a completely modern re-thinking.”
Preliminary studies for
Triclinium sofa (1986),
design by C.Bimbi.
«Inspiration can be a legacy, Triclinium inspires»
«Inspiration can be a legacy, Triclinium inspires»
Triclinium, sofa 1988
design by C.Bimbi.
