Pair of Torso armchairs by Paolo Deganello for Cassina, 1980s. This is how Deganello describes the project of the Torso armchairs: "The theme of this project is the dialogue between an inanimate body, industrially produced, and the animated body of those who sit on it, where the latter, through movement dominates, bends, to the point of imposing form to the inanimate body. It is not a plastic shell but a set of joints of two soft, covered, warm, enveloping shapes, each with possible variations. Rather than the single object, the model, a compositional logic is designed, a type of interlocking two shapes with possible formal variations. Each of these two shapes can be cut differently to give symmetrical and asymmetrical, high and low backrests, and seats with or without armrests or, again, with a deformation of these to the point of supporting the legs. It is a set of found shapes, not rigidly defined, at least conceptually further modifiable, it does not have the authority, rigidity and aridity of the models imposed by a defined technology, they are shapes cut differently following the movement of a body that finds different supports in different sitting positions. We want a landscape of non-aseptic, white, geometric, objective forms, acceptable to a variety of consumers, but strongly characterized, whose choice by the consumer is a strong declaration of identity; sensual, warm shapes, variously colored and decorated, where the body is encouraged to move and find its own position, to rub while feeling enveloped". Seat height: 31 cm.
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SILVER Seller in Torino, Italia
