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IT’S ALL IN THE DETAIL
When it comes to the success of a design, it is often the
smallest things that matter the most.
Great designers understand this. Designers such as
Italian visionary Gianfranco Frattini, who knew that the
harmony of sculptural beauty and functional excellence
demands the most precise engineering. Or his Finnish
counterpart, Paavo Tynell, whose devotion to detail
elevated the metalsmith’s craft into an art form.
Louis Weisdorf, master of the intricate, the multi-layered
and the multi-functional, understood it. So did his fellow
Dane, Illum Wikkelsø, whose standards of material
comfort and formal elegance in furniture demands the
most extraordinary hand-crafting skills to achieve.
Today, one finds this obsessive quality in the work of
studios such as GamFratesi, whose thoughtful and focused
eye for detail has the power to transform even the most
everyday objects into something truly remarkable.
This fall, GUBI pays tribute to those rare and radical
designers who made the biggest impact – by getting every
detail right.
