27/06/2023 - Master Alessandro Mendini's designs give shape to the three new Porro storage units of the Linea collection, produced in a limited edition of 50 pieces. The accurate research work carried out by Fulvia and Elisa Mendini in their father's archives has brought to light the designs for two sideboards and a writing desk, in which explosions of colours and optical geometries highlight the signature of the great Italian designer.
“Our father has always been fascinated and interested in high craftsmanship - say Fulvia and Elisa Mendini - a thing that he found in Porro on the occasion of their first experience together in 2014-15, for the realization of Maggio chest of drawers and Schermo cupboard. There he had played with the absence of color, or actually with the color of the natural wood essences, which was something that he liked so much.
"This time - continue Fulvia and Elisa - Lorenzo and Maria Porro wanted to do a tribute to dad, trying to show what was perhaps the most important figure of his work, where color has always been the protagonist. We identified in the Alessandro Mendini archive some drawings that had a very advanced level of design. These pieces of furniture are really very faithful to the original design, we are really happy for this collaboration”.
An open cupboard with drawer, a closed cupboard with two hinged doors and a writing desk with flap top and internal partitions are united by an alternation of solid parts with geometric patterns and coloured empty spaces.
A patchwork of inlaid surfaces in cellulose acetate distinguishes the three Porro storage units, the result of craftsmanship and technological details.
“With the chromatic exuberance typical of Alessandro Mendini's design - describes the brand's marketing and communication director Maria Porro - Linea perfectly expresses all the ingredients of a Porro object: geometric purity, accurate workmanship and technological details.
"It is a family of containers - Maria Porro continues - characterized by an inlaid front in red, blue, light blue, yellow and white, made deeper by black: a depth that the lacquered color could not give. This is why we looked for an alternative solution and found a producer of cellulose acetate plates, the material used for glasses, which is also suitable for making the pointed geometries of these decorations. For these sideboards we also had to provide a particular fastening system, experimenting with different solutions”
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