Over the last year Qeeboo has enriched its path thanks to the collaboration with two leading authors:
Ron Arad and Marco Oggian. The former needs no introduction, he is one of the greatest and most rec-
ognized international designers who, collaborating with Qeeboo, succeeded to express his most fresh
and playful soul with the DFWTM (Don’t F**k with the mouse) Armchair. We had immediately a great af-
finity of purpose, working with him was very stimulating and represented for Qeeboo a sign of maturity
that will certainly give additional results in the near future. The second, Marco Oggian, is in my opinion
the most talented, emerging creative in the current Italian context. I’m not sure whether to call him an
artist, a graphic designer or a designer: he is undoubtedly a visionary capable of turning everything he
touches into an up to date feeling. By working with him, I was struck by the spontaneity with which he
creates objects characterized by a strong personality through a language that is a genuine and pow-
erful expression of the contemporary scene. His very personal work is made up of strong signs that al-
lowed Qeeboo to develop new collections based on previously unexplored typologies and materials. It
seems as Marco has been absorbing the strongest figurative languages of the last 50 years, from Mem-
phis to pop to graffiti artists, blending everything to obtain a magical result in terms of power and rel-
evance. Ettore Sottsass approached the street art world through the use of color and plastic laminates
even if he kept a typical great-mind distance from it, whereas Marco was able to embed the same per-
spective in a surprising and natural way. I am sure that, if Ettore was still with us, he would have loved
him as much as we do. Other important additions in this catalogue are the new products of the Primitive
family by Studio Nucleo, the sofa, bookshelf xs and large size carpets. The new components of the Rib-
bon family by Nika Zupanc are: the Ribbon armchair and the baby Ribbon chair for the kids. Moreover,
the Mabelle M by Marcel Wanders studio is a medium-sized suspension lamp, which is added to the
larger existing Mabelle XL. Among the new objects, Paki is a coffee table designed by me, supported by
an elephant whose trunk expands to create the table top and the Sweet Brothers, a new version of the
Golden Brothers finished with soft touch colors. A new exciting series concerns the Editions, where our
most successful iconic products are entirely decorated in limited editions with patterns created by art-
ists, designers or stylists, through the cubic printing technique. The first of them are the Teddy and the
Rabbit, presented in two different sizes, decorated by Marco Oggian.
We hope that, by going through these pages, you'll be able to feel the same energy and passion that we
felt while doing this work.
Stefano Giovannoni
