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Canton

by Franco Raggi
La panca in legno Canton, disegnata da Franco Raggi nel 1988, corredata ai lati da due spazi, contenitori per riviste, libri e per gli elenchi del telefono, all’epoca ancora in uso, destinata, idealmente, agli ingressi, «nasce —come scrive Franco Raggi— da un esercizio grafico: una linea nera che nel suo percorso continuo crea due quadrati collegati da una linea orizzontale. Trascinando questa linea nella terza dimensione ho visto che il solido ottenuto poteva essere una panca, una seduta non comoda, per usi temporanei, nei quali l’ergonomia può essere sacrificata a favore di una immagine astratta, quasi neoplastica. Nei quadrati trasformati in vani a giorno si possono mettere libri e cose».

 

Nel 2023, in seguito alla rimessa in catalogo del progetto filologico degli anni ’80, il Centro Studi Poltronova, insieme all’architetto Franco Raggi, ha editato una nuova versione in due combinazioni di colori rosso e verde, blu e arancio, ciascuna delle quali in due versioni positivo e negativo.

 

Per richiedere informazioni scrivere a info@poltronova.it, per un preventivo a sales@poltronova.it.

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  • anno1988
  • tipologiapanca
  • dimensioni170[l] x 45[p] x 75[a] cm
  • materiali[Canton] legno di faggio con bordo melaminico, verniciatura all’acqua
    [Canton Color] struttura in legno rivestita in impiallacciato di frassino tinto naturale, verniciatura all’acqua
  • colori[Canton] faggio/nero
    [Canton Color] rosso/verde, verde/rosso, blu/arancio, arancio/blu
  • peso46 kg
  • downloadscheda prodotto | istruzioni

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Mostre

  • 2020Poltronova. La casa non domestica, Contemporary Cluster, Rome
  • 2023Ultrafavola. Poltronova beyond the mirror, Milano Design Week, Milan

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Canton, the perfect place for your favorite books and objects 📚
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Did you know that Canton wooden bench, designed by Franco Raggi in 1988, was born from a graphic exercise? ⬛
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ULTRAFAVOLA: Poltronova beyond the mirror
Milano Design Week 2023
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On the occasion of Milan Design Week 2023, Centro Studi Poltronova renews its synergy with Mosca Partners for Design Variations, this time crossing the threshold of the Palazzo del Circolo Filologico Milanese in the heart of the Brera Design District. From 17 to 23 April, the Tuscan company will take centre stage. In the large and evocative Liberty Hall, under the luminous eye of a suggestive skylight, in a maze of rooms suspended in space and time, iconic objects and unusual new proposals will be displayed as if they had jumped out of one of the over ten thousand volumes of the library of the city's oldest cultural association that has its headquarters here. With ULTRAFAVOLA, inspired by its own “best seller”, the Ultrafragola mirror designed by Ettore Sottsass, the Centro Studi Poltronova, just like in Lewis Carroll's novel Through the Looking Glass and what Alice Found There, invites you to go beyond reflective surfaces to discover the magical dimension of part of its fantastic product catalogue. 
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📆 2023 April 17–23 
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📍@design_variations, @circolofilologicomilanese, via Clerici 10, Milan
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🥢 Canton
Bench designed by Franco Raggi
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The Canton wooden bench, designed by Franco Raggi in 1988, fitted out with two spaces on the sides—containers for magazines, books and phone directories, still in use at the time—ideally designed for home entrances, «was born, —Franco Raggi writes—, from a graphic exercise: a black line which in its continuous path creates two squares connected by a horizontal line. Dragging this line into the third dimension, I realised that the solid thus obtained could be a bench, not a comfortable seat, but for temporary use, where ergonomics could be sacrifice in favour of an abstract, almost neoplastic image. Books and things could be put in the squares transformed into open compartments.»
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @psavorelli
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#poltronova #francoraggi #canton #cantonbench #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #bench
🥢 Canton
Bench designed by Franco Raggi
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The Canton wooden bench, designed by Franco Raggi in 1988, fitted out with two spaces on the sides—containers for magazines, books and phone directories, still in use at the time—ideally designed for home entrances, «was born, —Franco Raggi writes—, from a graphic exercise: a black line which in its continuous path creates two squares connected by a horizontal line. Dragging this line into the third dimension, I realised that the solid thus obtained could be a bench, not a comfortable seat, but for temporary use, where ergonomics could be sacrifice in favour of an abstract, almost neoplastic image. Books and things could be put in the squares transformed into open compartments.»
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💡 Art direction by @_d_apostrophe_
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📷 Photo by @psavorelli
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#poltronova #francoraggi #canton #cantonbench #radicaldesign #popdesign #design #italiandesign #madeinitaly #bench @kinraggi @francoraggistudio

Franco Raggi

1945

Designed for Poltronova:
Canton

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