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Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
 
April 8–13 / 9.30 am – 6.30 pm

XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Passiflora by Superstudio, 1967 — alongside something unexpected.

🌼 The Passiflora lighting fixture comes from a painted cardboard prototype made for the exhibition “Superarchitettura” [December 1966], a manifesto of Radical Design.

🌼 The cardboard was replaced with a light–permeable material, transforming Passiflora into a truncated luminous column: a column whose deformed profile wavers between natural and artificial, in a game of allusions and ambiguities, corresponding to the statement of intent of Superstudio, summed up in the text “Invention Design and Evasion Design”.

🎵 Audio track by Tyops — @TyopsSounds on YouTube

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Poltronova | Passiflora Lamp | Table Lamp | Superstudio | Lighting Fixture | Interior Design | Salone del Mobile 2025 | Radical Design

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XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Rumble by Gianni Pettena, 1967 — alongside something unexpected.

☁️ Gianni Pettena’s Rumble sofa gets a new soul: its modular structure is dressed in white panno casentino fabric, enhancing the play of deconstructed volumes in a dialogue between softness and architecture.

Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
April 8–13
9.30 am – 6.30 pm

🤍 Rumble is a playful sofa. It is a simple, original form, a womb where everything happens or has already happened, but which still suggests possibilities, other things that can happen there. It is an object that breaks up form as it breaks up function; it acquires meaning when the clean geometry of the initial status quo is upset by equally ungrammatical functions.

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Poltronova | Sofa | Interior Design | Salone del Mobile 2025 | Furniture Design | Interior Design

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XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Mitzi sofa by Hans Hollein, 1981 — alongside something unexpected.

⭕️ The Mitzi sofa, designed by Hans Hollein, makes its debut to the general public with its distinctive érable burlwood finish. An object that challenges the dichotomy between function and symbol.

Salone Internazionale del Mobile

Rho Fiera, Milan

Hall 24, Booth D33
 
April 8–13
9.30 am – 6.30 pm


🔻 The Mitzi sofa, part of the rich production of the Austrian master Hans Hollein, highlights a rigorous design while staging of a dialectic between different connotations and symbolisms. Soft and rigid elements are present together in the materials and forms. Upholstered cushions and soft wool cloth come alongside the walnut, both solid and in sheets, of the structure, and the curved line of the backrest coexists with the straight line at the base, masculine and feminine together: a sofa with a woman’s name.

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Poltronova Furniture | Hans Hollein | Sofa | Salone del Mobile 2025 | Furniture Design | Interior Design

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Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Rho Fiera, Milan
Hall 24, Booth D33
 
April 8–13 / 9.30 am – 6.30 pm

XS is an exhibition presenting a selection of Poltronova’s iconic designs — like Mies by Archizoom Associati, 1969 — alongside something unexpected.

📐 The Mies armchair was born in 1969 from the idea of using a strip of para rubber or India rubber –strong, elastic materials– as a seat. The structure, a triangle in chrome–plated metal, brings out the purity of the silhouette. The headrest and footrest–lamp cushions are in ponyskin. The name emphasizes the similarity of the structure to the projects of Mies van der Rohe, as a tribute to the great master who died that same year.

🔗 The prototype, which is the gift made by Paolo Deganello to Dario Bartolini and Lucia Morozzi for their wedding, was born from the idea of using the typical element of industrial conveyor belts as a seat. It is a strip of natural rubber that is grafted onto the trapezoidal steel frame, fixing itself to two cylindrical sticks. In contrast with the seat, the headrest is in pony leather. The armchair is listed in the catalog by the company along with a luminous footrest with the same steel and pony finishes.

🎵 Audio track by Tyops — @TyopsSounds on YouTube

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