Paolo Deganello, one of the great personalities of the culture of design and architecture in Italy, leads the Furniture Remade workshop, as part of the Master's Degree in Interior Design at ESAD
The workshop focuses on the rehabilitation of furniture pieces, supplied by Maiambiente, which will be exposed in a solidarity auction. The money raised will be given to a group of associations.
The Furniture Remade workshop, oriented by Paolo Deganello, one of the great personalities of the design culture in Italy, arises from a partnership with Maiambiente, which supplies a set of more than 50 pieces of useless furniture for rehabilitation.
The students of the 1st year of the Masters in Interior Design of ESAD will reimagine these pieces, from the 2nd to the 5th of May, in a project of reuse and rehabilitation with a social purpose. The rehabilitated pieces will then be exhibited in a solidarity auction and the money raised will be given to a number of associations.
Born in 1940, Paolo Deganello studied architecture at the University of Florence. In 1966, he joined Andrea Branzi, Gilberto Corretti, and Massimo Morozzi in founding Archizoom Associati, in homage to the British group of architects known as Archigram and to Zoom magazine. Archizoom was part of the radical design movement in Italy, designing anti-design furniture such as the Safari corner set or the San Remo floor lamp (both for Poltronova in 1968). In 1973, he collaborated with Gilberto Corretti on the design of Archizoon, a line of office chairs manufactured by Marcatré. With the dissolution of Archizoom Associati, he devoted himself to teaching at the University of Florence and at the London Architectural Association. With his students, he investigated the quality and comfort requirements of seating furniture, a study that bore fruit, such as the AEO chair (Cassina, 1973). In 1981, in his studio in Florence, he designed the asymmetrical Torso chair (Cassina, 1982). In 1987 he shows his Documenta Chair at documenta 8 in Kassel. And in 1991 he designs the Re and Regina pair of chairs, with steel frame and legs, wicker seats and leather backs. Paolo Deganello has shown his work in numerous exhibitions, including Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, the exhibition mounted by the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1972. He has been a guest lecturer on the Master in Interior Design at ESAD since 2010 and is responsible for the research unit on Architecture and Sustainable Living.
Paolo Deganello also presents the conference The Reasons for My Radical Project, on May 4, at 15:00, in the ESAD auditorium. The entrance is free.