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Briefly noted»
Product design: Natural Stone – Electricity – Communication
The name „Clique“ is a premonition of the focal center of the collection: electricity and every-day appliances. In fact the unusual ties of furniture and equipment e.g. for communication or for household-use.
Designers were Claudio Larcher and Simone Simonelli, both lecturers at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, and Filippo Protasoni, lecturer at the European Institute of Design in Milan.
Materials used were Marble, Valchromat (a further development of wood fiberboard) and wood. Participants in development and marketing were Odone Marmi and Linea Design Companies.
Clique Editions (Smart matters)
Photos: Silvia Rivoltella (Mail)
(12.09.2014, USA: 09.12.2014)
