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ARKETIPO � FIRENZE
Preliminary studies for
Oracle dining table (2015),
design by G.Carollo.
"You understand that when you work with Arketipo, there
is a common and shared vision on product strategy. Th is
forms part of their company philosophy, one that makes
them, the brand that you want to work with. We formed
a design partnership from the beginning of the relaunch of
the brand, with the intent to give life to a highly identifi able
reality , able to create a trend in the market. Our contribution
started with the resty ling of the façade of the company
headquarters, which has been fl anked over the years by
the design of showrooms, exhibition spaces and exhibition
stands."
“Arketipo is a dynamic company with a strong personality ,
it expresses a new way of understanding furnishing, not
"limited" to the product but more completely to the creation
of a Modus Vivendi, a new lifesty le. Th ese peculiarities make
it a unique reality and make Arketipo the ideal partner for
our design creativity .”
It’s easy to see where Gino Carollo takes this understanding
when you look at his design for, Oracle. Here, his Modus
Vivendi is an intricate balance of art; the physical and the
spiritual, conspiring to live in the day to day. Oracle has been
described as an ‘illusion’, a ‘law bending structure of interior
physics’ and even ‘a centre point.’ With a complex mixture
of materials, each lending to their own interpretation, it is
easy to see why.
“Oracle was a project designed to understand and
symbolically represent, ‘the circle’. Th e six circles of the
base recall the construction of the fl ower of life, an ancient
symbol considered sacred, resulting from the rotation of six
circles around a point.”
Th is is interior engineering that looks as stunning as it is
thoughtful, producing balance, a showcase of know how;
it is part philosophy, part design and part conceptual
uniqueness.
Oracle, dining table 2016
design by G.Carollo.
«The brand that you want to work with»
«The brand that you want to work with»
