Milano 2018, Holz, massiv, von Hand gebeizt, Höhe 76 cm, Breite 56 cm, Tiefe 57 cm, Sitzhöhe 46 cm. (DRAX)

Einzelstück in Holz. Die spätere Produktion ist aus Polyurethan geformt und hat einen verstärkenden Metallkern.

Als Prototyp erstmals präsentiert im Salone del Mobile 2018 in Mailand.

The present piece is the original prototype of the limited edition which followed. Das Modell ist Teil der permanenten Sammlung des Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.

"GU CHAIR" is part of the design research that is conducted with the utmost conviction by MAD, notably including the work that has involved the Chinese architecture office in the George Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles and other important architectural projects worldwide. This research tends to confuse architecture with landscape, making the built work an extension and sometimes a metaphor of the natural context in which it stands, yet without every compromising on its contemporary spirit. On the scale of the everyday object, this relationship with nature becomes organic: GU (which means "bone" in Chinese) becomes an opportunity for experimenting how to translate every living being's fibrous connective tissue into the difficult typology of the chair. From this standpoint, this solid wooden chair takes on the appearance of a unique structure, a figure whose components link seamlessly, so that one element is part of the next, in a unique complementary synthesis of matter and form.