Stefano Giovannoni – Injecting Fun Into Everyday Furniture and Artifacts
This is Stefano Giovannoni, Italian architect, interiors and product designer – though you could be forgiven for thinking he would actually be more at home in ‘The Sopranos’. He’s been designing for decades. In 1978, he graduated with an Architecture degree in Florence. In 1980, he won first prize at the ?Shinchenchiku Residential Design Competition? judged by Kisho Kurokawa. He’s been hugely successful ever since and he specializes in plastic product design.
This is his spanking new (2016) ‘Rabbit Chair’ – in both adult and baby versions. A lot of his contemporary stuff could be described as ‘cute’, but this is cute with cutting edge style – and definitely quirky. The inspiration for the plastic chair came from – well obviously, a rabbit! – though in particular from its silhouette. The bunny’s back is the seat, the ears are the backrest of the chair. Though you can also straddle it and lean forwards onto the ears. According to the online intro to the ‘Rabbit Chair’ , at Giovannoni’s ‘Queeboo’ online store – ‘The rabbit is a gentle animal, lovable and tender. In Western and Eastern culture it symbolizes love and fertility, it is a sweet and auspicious object that brings good fortune and good wishes’. The chair comes in many colors – violet, white, light grey, grey, dove grey, light green, pink, orange…and gold.
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