DESIGN

All of the Design pieces are artisanally crafted in Florence (Italy) and are available for sale by request or see our online store for ready to purchase Designs.
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The furniture system of Andrea Ponsi is disarmingly simple, so simple that it makes one say, "how come I didn't think of that?” The main elements consist of a tube and a joint. The tube is connected with the joint, thus becoming the basis of any object to be completed later by other elements, either suggested by the designer or purposely defined by the taste of the person who is assembling it. Given these relative connections, even the connected relatives are content. The examples published within this book have a considerable feature: they are aesthetically correct. They have the right dimensions, perfect orientation, are pleasant on the whole, and functionable. What more could you ask for?...

- Bruno Munari

Andrea Ponsi works on a challenging equation:  that of infusing poetry into objects through a rigorous technological abstraction. This, it seems to me, is the subtlest and most sensitive purpose of his art.  In the use of his favourite material, copper, he has for years been a master.  With copper tubes, joints and sheets, and with the deeply magical, musical and natural colours of this archaic material, he develops like an alchemist an inexhaustible range of visual alembics.  The result is a gentle story and infinite writing, achieved in a few essential, geometrical strokes, the Cartesian attitude being sublimated in a rarefied aesthetic of punctuated spaces.  His scope is described between straight and curved lines, antennae, rhythms and pauses, abscissae and ordinates as presences measuring a metaphysical space.

-Alessandro Mendini