The designers Saša Štucin and Nicholas Gardner have developed a coffee table that follows the footsteps of radical design inspired by natural forms and which plays with the short circuits between form and substance: PIETRE is a coffee table and/or seat that already in its name identifies the natural subject that inspires it, in the wake of great Gufram icons of the past such as SASSI and MASSOLO by master Piero Gilardi.
The inspiration comes from an ancient Bourbon arch seen by the designers on the Naples coast: evidence of a distant past, the arch collapsed due to structural failures caused by water and atmospheric agents and is now being restored. More precisely, the effect of the weather had caused the erosion of the spaces between the stones, transforming the blocks into something extremely similar to the stones that can be seen in comics, full and rounded. Therefore, the monumental aspect had almost become caricatural. Soft Baroque has taken these characteristics to the extreme in a pattern of polyurethane stones, which has always been the symbolic material of Gufram domestic sculptures, which seem to be assembled exactly as in the Bourbon arch from which they draw inspiration.
PIETRE is available in a Grigio Basalto version and in a limited edition of 52 pieces – 52 in the Neapolitan grimace is the number that symbolizes the stone – in Rosso Arenaria and Giallo Zolfo.
