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Achille Castiglioni
Interni n.411, 1991
«[...] I don’t agree with reproducing a style
that is out of date. The path we have followed
is quite something else, where the image of
memory, when it exists, is never a ‘sampling’,
but rather an elaboration of the culture we have
used to solve a ‘functional’ problem.
This was true for the Sanluca armchair,
where there was a desire to emphasise function
by saying: I won’t cover it up, I’ll highlight
its structure, and so on. However, when we
designed the front, we did so while looking
at an old Frau armchair, because it had to
correspond [...] to a whole complex of functional
components that had to be put together.
I don’t deny that we had the memory of the
past in our minds, but it was only revisited, and
certainly not taken literally and brought there.»
Achille and Pier Giacomo
Castiglioni, with Dino
Gavina, photographed by
Mauro Masera in Bologna
under the portico of San
Luca, from which the
armchair gets its name.
Courtesy Iuav University
in Venice, Design Archive,
Mauro Masera fund.
