The Teatro Open chair can be considered a technological experiment conducted on a material, aluminum, which was constantly arousing more interest in the furniture industry.
“The fascination of this project lies in the fact that it draws on a system of translation and of more complex figures than those of traditional ‘metal chairs’; in its construction, through analogy and transposition, of ‘another’ parallel chair in wood that preceded it and formed it from within, which is its origin and guiding principle. Because the same idea developed with different materials can generate objects related to one another or different from one another.”
- Daniele Vitale
Teatro Open was never produced; very few prototypes were realized in anodized sheets or painted flat black.
Luca Meda wrote an important chapter in Italian enterprise history. He contributed to the design culture of the Molteni Group with great passion and dedication. He was an example of a perfect symbiosis between creativity, business, art and industry. This is something of a paradox for a designer who loves drawing and uses a pencil more than any other tool to describe and reinvent reality. Since the late 70's Luca Meda was dedicated to the design of ranges. He created furniture which became icons. With Aldo Rossi he created the Piroscafo bookshelf, the Zim chairs and the Ho armchair, the Vivette armchair, the Primafila sofa, the 505 programme and the Pass system.
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“Simplicity is not good in itself, but there surely is a type of simplicity that comes from generations of work”.
Luca Meda
Aldo Rossi (Milan, May 3, 1931 - Milan, September 4, 1997) was one of the greatest Italian architects of the 1980’s. His Molteni Group collaboration marked his passage from masterful architect to an industrial designer. He created models and furnishings for the Museum of Maastricht, the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa and the reconstruction of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Aldo Rossi designed items that were destined to become icons of the 20th century.
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“Perhaps it is snobbery but the more I see the world, the more I feel being a citizen of it and the more I want to go back to the old way of things”
Aldo Rossi
