“Having designed the table we then had to think about a chair and we obtained two matching chairs with a minimum of waste from the same board of plywood used for the table Andrea”. Arch. Giuseppe Pilla
The chair Alessia is the negative or reverse of the table, its shape being determined by how the plywood panel was cut for the table top. The distinctive curve of the backrest fits the profile of the Andrea table extensions.
Tanaro, the mahogany plywood made for Atanor using formaldehyde-free glue was also used for the Alessia chair, while a foam rubber cushion with eco-leather cover was created for the seat.
“The various customisable solutions and combinations…are intended to bring back with a new twist the romantic atmosphere of exclusive welcome that a table and chair have always expressed”.
In Piero Lissoni’s opinion a material with a high mechanical efficiency is relatively easy to use, but the challenge lies in inventing or in seeking the best performance of a natural material. Why take part in Atanor?
“…because it’s great in that it’s not a real project, because the best ideas are those that emerge almost for fun or by mistake, because it has within it the matrices of thought and the hand combined with the matrix of error”.
The main feature of this object?
“The surprise factor is essential; every object will be different from its twin, the stool will have lots of lookalikes but each one different from the preceding one: the beauty of error. I have tried to design a product with slender, tapering legs, to take the use of wood to extremes”.
Malga stool is a seat in solid walnut or ash obtained from the burl wood of the trunk with three through holes to accommodate three legs in ash secured using ash wedges. The whole stool is finished with natural wax.
“In the end it’s a stool, you sit on it, you don’t, you put your coffee on it, you tip over, you curse the architect, all within the norm…a stool”.
It was a continual challenge to bring to fruition the Oscarina chair. It all started on 2 January 2004 with the company closed for the Christmas holiday.
“Are you working today? I’ll be round to see you at two this afternoon”. Question and answer all in one. Tobia Scarpa.
Challenge won, after hundreds of samples, tests, modifications, updates and checks at Catas, with another call from Tobia to the joinery to tell Oscar personally: “I’ve seen the finished chair. You’ve worked a small miracle”. We named it Oscarina because of the passion and hard work put into it by Oscar Merotto, an extraordinary craftsman of our joinery.
Heartwood of ash, bent wood surfaces, flowing shapes, gentle curves, bold joints, little glue, no paint or varnish, the little silver Atanor logo. This is Oscarina.
The chair only tells its full story if observed through the details and turned upside down, where the architect’s magic and the skill of the craftsman become clear.
Oscarina is supplied in natural ash, with the possibility of natural leather upholstery for the seat and backrest.
Baum initiated with the freehand sketch of a tree, with a spontaneous stroke lacking in any geometrical construction that would help understand why it goes one way rather than another.
The uninterrupted line of this intuition, expressed by a single stroke of the pencil and reminiscent of a Ginkgo leaf, represents the idea of conveying the pleasure of an intimate and deep relationship with nature, a step towards genuine things.
That’s how Baum came to be designed for Atanor, this seat in solid pear wood, which acts in two ways. Baum welcomes two persons simultaneously into the sensuality of its forms in a wave of love, care and playfulness.
Baum is the manifesto of our ambition to improve the quality of life of persons through architecture designed around emotions to express the joy and warmth of the serenity that we seek in the objects we take home with us.
Baum: 144 core blocks of solid pear wood treated with natural wax and assembled without glue using hidden elements with made-to-measure stainless steel screws.
